A Karmo Grade 1 Area Court , Abuja , on Monday sentenced two labourers , Lawal Salisu and Habib Isa to eight months in prison for cheating and theft .
Salisu , 20, and Isa , 21, of Gidan Wanka Pantaker Karmo , Abuja , pleaded guilty to charges of cheating and theft .
The judge, Mr Maiwa In
uwa , who sentenced th
e two to eight months
in prison , however , gave them N 5 , 000 option of fine each .
Inuwa , who warned the convicts to shun crime and be good citizens, expressed the hope that the sentence would serve as deterrent to others.
Earlier , the prosecutor , Mrs Ukagha Ijeoma , had told the court that the matter was reported by Ibrahim Mohammed of Angwan Shehu road , Karmo , Abuja , at Karmo Police Station on June 10.
Ijeoma said that on the same date at about 5 . 30am , the convicts jointly and criminally entered into Mohammed ’ s house and stole iron scraps valued at N 20, 500 which the convicts had earlier sold to the complainant .
She said that the convicts criminally brought back the same iron scrap to the complainant to buy at N 10, 000 .
She added that in the process , the complainant identified the iron scrape and invited the police , who arrested the two .
The prosecutor said that the convicts had confessed to committing the crime during police investigation , noting that the offences contravened sections 322 and 287 of the Penal Code .
(NAN )
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