Agency Report
An Upper Area Court in Gwagwalada FCT, on Tuesday, sentenced a 30-year-old unemployed man, Idris Dada, to four months imprisonment for stealing a cell phone worth N50,000 belonging to his friend.
The Judge, Malam Sani Umar, sentenced Dada after he pleaded guilty to the two counts of criminal trespass and theft.
Umar granted the convict an option to pay a fine of N30,000.
”If the convict fails to pay the fine, he will serve a jail term of two months for each of the offence which would run consecutively.
”The convict is hereby ordered to pay N50,000 in compensation to the complainant, being the value of the phone.
