19-year-old trader bags two years imprisonment for motorcycle theft

A 19-year-old trader, Abdullahi Yusuf, has been sentenced to two years in a correctional centre for stealing a motorcycle by an Upper Area Court sitting in Kasuwan Nama, Jos, on Thursday.

The Judge, Lawal Suleiman, sentenced Yusuf after he pleaded guilty to stealing the motorcycle worth N80,000.

Suleiman, however, gave the convict an option to pay N60,000 fine and said the judgment would serve as a deterrent to those who would want to indulge in such a criminal act.

Earlier, the Prosecutor, Sgt. Ibrahim Gokwat, told the court that the case was reported at the Laranto Police Station on July 3 by one Benjamin Okieh of Zaria Road, Jos.

Gokwat said that the accused trespassed into the complainant’s compound where the motorcycle was parked and stole it.

“The accused took the motorcycle to a place to sell it and was arrested and handed over to the police,” Gokwat said.

The prosecutor said that the offence contravened Sections 372 and 271 of the Penal Code of Plateau. (NAN)