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20-year old Awwalu Ali has been sentenced to 90 days imprisonment for
stealing a toilet door at the Calvary Faith Baptist Church, Life Camp,
Abuja. The verdict has been read at Abuja Magistrates’ Court on August
28, 2013, Wednesday.
Mr. Abdullahi Illela, the Magistrate, who convicted Ali, said that it would serve as a deterrent to others.
The Magistrate, however, gave the convict an option to pay a fine of N2,500.
Simon
Emmanuel, the Prosecutor, previously told the court that one Adebiyi
Laniyan of the Calvary Baptist Church reported the crime at the Life
Camp Police Station on August 24.
Emmanuel
said that the convict broke into the church compound and removed the
door to the toilet, but was arrested before he could escape with it.
Awwalu Ali of Dape village, pleaded guilty to the charge and urged the court to pardon him.
“I
am a family man with a wife and two children; they will starve to death
if I go to jail, please, have mercy on me, my Lord,” he said.
(NAN)
what a man...
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