Bala Hassan, 25, was sentenced to 10 months in prison on Tuesday by a Kaduna Chief Magistrates’ Court for planning and stealing a generator set worth N450,000.
The Ungwan Dosa, Kaduna, inmate entered a guilty plea and begged the judge for mercy.
The Magistrate, Mr. Ibrahim Emmanuel, declared in his ruling that the defendant’s conviction and punishment were based on his guilty plea to the crime.
The defendant was a first-time offender who did not squander the court’s time or resources, and the court found him guilty of the crime in accordance with his plea for mercy.
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“Bala Hassan is hereby sentenced to 10 months imprisonment with an option to pay N20,000 fine, the magistrate said.
He said the judgement would serve as a deterrent to those who would want to indulge in any criminal act.
Emmanuel, however, ordered the convict to pay a compensation of N450,000 to the complainant, Mohammed Danladi.
Earlier, the prosecution counsel, Chidi Leo, told the court that on June 23, Hassan and one other at large, conspired and stole a generator valued at N450, 000 belonging to the complainant at Badarawa Kaduna.
Leo said during the police investigation, the defendant admitted to committing the offence; however, all efforts to recover the generator proved abortive.
Leo said the offences contravened Sections 302 and 217 of the Penal Code of Kaduna State, 2017.
(NAN)
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