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  • Court sentences two traders for receiving stolen property

    A Karmo Grade I Area Court in Abuja on Wednesday sentenced two traders, George Samuel and Ukadike Basil, to three months in prison for receiving and selling stolen goods.

    Samuel, 19, of Akaraka village Gwagwa and Basil, 28, of Angwa Shehu village Karmo respectively, pleaded guilty to receiving stolen property.

    The Area Court Judge, Alhaji Inuwa Maiwada, however, gave the convicts an option of N5,000 fine each and warned them to desist from committing crimes.

    The Police Prosecutor, Mrs Ijeoma Ukagha, earlier told court that Uchenna Chibueze reported the matter at the Utako Police Station on March 28.

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    Ukagha informed court that one Samuel Francis who was charged with extortion, confessed during police investigation that gives the stolen phones and laptops to the convicts.

    She said that Francis sell’s stolen items to Samuel, Basil and one Lucky David of Dutse Makarata now at large, in Wuse market Abuja.

    Ukagha said that during police investigation four cell phones were recovered from the convicts and they could not give a satisfactory account of the said phones.

    She said that all effort made to recover one infinix hot not V pop phone from the convict failed.

    Ukagha said the offence contravened the provisions of Section 318 of the Penal Code Law.

  • Police arraign two fashion designers for assault

    The police on Friday arraigned two fashion designers in a Karmo Chief Magistrates’ Court for allegedly beating and tearing a housewife’s clothes off.

    The police charged Yusuf Saidu and Tukur Hassan with force and assault and criminal force to a woman with intent to outrage her modesty.

    The Prosecutor, Mr Ijeoma Ukagha, told the court that the case was reported at the Karmo Police Station on March 9 by the complainant, Mr Saheed Adeniji on behalf of his wife, Mariam, who lives at Karmo, Abuja.

    Ukagha alleged that the defendants who live in the same house, and others now at large, assaulted the complainant’s wife.

    She said the offence contravened the provisions of section 266 and 268 of the Penal Code.

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    If convicted, they liable to two years in prison, or with fine, or with both.

    After the charge was read to them they pleaded not guilty.

    Chief Magistrate Inuwa Maiwada, admitted the defendants to bail in the sum of N50, 000 each.

    Maiwada ordered the defendants to produce one surety each who must reside within the court jurisdiction.

    She adjourned the case until April 15 for hearing.

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  • Court discharges man who stole his own car

    A Karmo Grade 1 Area Court, Abuja, on Tuesday discharged one Shehu Adamu, docked for stealing his own car from the police station.

    Adamu, who resides at Utako Village, Abuja, and arraigned on a charge of theft, pleaded guilty after admitting to committing the offence.

    He begged the court for leniency.

    “I plead with this court to reduce my punishment for I know I am guilty of all the allegations.’’

    The Judge, Alhaji Inuwa Maiwada, after listening to Adamu, discharged him and warned him not to commit the crime again.

    He ordered him to sign a bond to be of good behaviour.

    Maiwada also ordered the police to release the car to the defendant.

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    The Prosecuting Counsel, Mrs Ijeoma Ukagha, had told the court that one Ugochukwu Ogbonna, a Mobile Police Officer attached Utako Police Station, reported the matter at the station.

    “They were at a checkpoint when the officer stopped the man to search his car and discovered that the man had no driver’s licence, and the car was later taken to the police station.

    “The defendant later went to the station and fraudulently took the car without the consent of the police officer that arrested him,” Ukagha said.

    She said that during police investigation, the defendant could not give a satisfactory account of his actions.

    According to the prosecutor, the offence contravened the provisions of Section 288 of the Penal Code.

  • Storekeeper bags three months imprisonment for stealing cement

    A Karmo Grade 1 Area Court, Abuja, on Monday sentenced a 32-year-old storekeeper, Julius Dauda, to three months imprisonment for stealing 10 bags of cement.

    Dauda, of no fixed address, was arraigned on a count charge of theft.

    Dauda pleaded guilty to the charge and prayed the court to temper justice with mercy.

    “I am sorry for stealing and I am pleading with the court to temper justices with mercy.

    “I promise not to steal again; please sir, forgive me,’’ he pleaded.

    The Judge, Alhaji Inuwa Maiwada, however, sentenced Dauda to three months imprisonment with a fine option of N5, 000.

    Earlier, the Prosecutor, Mrs Ijeoma Ukagha, had told the court that on Dec. 4, the complainant, Sylvanus Ejike, of Idu Industrial Area, Abuja, reported the matter at the Life Camp Police Station.

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    Ukagha informed the court that the complainant employed Dauda as a storekeeper and security guard in his block industry at Idu Industrial Area, Abuja.

    She said that Dauda stole his employer’s 10 bags of cement and other property valued at N1.5 million.

    The prosecutor said that during police investigation, the convict admitted to have committed the offence.

    Ukagha said that the convict confessed that he sold the cement to an unknown buyer and efforts to recover the property proved abortive.

    The prosecutor said the offence contravened Section 289 of the Penal Code.

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  • Court jails man four months for stealing cell phone

    A Karmo Grade 1 Area Court in Abuja on Wednesday sentenced one 37-year-old Chukwu Ndukwu to four months’ imprisonment for stealing a N60,000 phone.

    The Judge, Mr Inuwa Maiwada, however, gave the convict an option of N7,000 fine, warning him to desist from bad behaviour.

    The convict had admitted committing the offence, and begged the court to temper justice with mercy.

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    He blamed the stealing on the Devil.

    Earlier, the Prosecutor, Ijeoma Ukagha, told the court that Mr Suleiman Halilu of Garki 2, Abuja, reported the case at the Utako Police Station, Abuja, on October 4.

    Ukagha said that the convict and two others at large snatched Halilu’s Infinix Hot Note 6 from him when he stopped his car to rectify a fault.

    The prosecutor said that the police recovered the phone from the convict during an investigation.