GENERATOR THIEF SENTENCED TO 14 DAYS IN PRISON

A Wuse Zone 2 Senior Magistrates’ Court in Abuja has sentenced a 21-year-old man, Monday Yomi, to two weeks’ imprisonment for stealing a generator, valued at N85,000.

Yomi, who lives at NEPA Junction, Apo District, FCT, had pleaded guilty to a two-count charge of criminal trespass and theft, and begged for leniency.

The Magistrate, Aishatu Ibrahim, however, gave the convict an option of N5,000 fine, and ordered him to pay a compensation of N40,000 to the nominal complainant.

She said the convict should either return the generator or pay the compensation on or before September 30.

The prosecutor, Mr. Conatus Abah, told the court Abacha Ali reported the matter at Apo Police Station, on August 1.

He said Yomi criminally trespassed into the complainant’s workshop at NEPA Junction, Apo, and stole his welding generator.

The prosecutor said the convict admitted stealing the generator.
He reportedly confessed he sold it for N8,000 to Agada, now at large.

The offence contravened sections 348 and 287 of the Penal Code.

The convict earlier pleaded with the court to pardon him, saying he was not in his right senses when he stole the generator.