SEE GBEGE! : FOR STEALING 35 PAIRS OF BATHROOM SLIPPERS, COURT SENTENCES MAN TO 35YEARS IMPRISONMENT

A Kano Senior Magistrates’ Court sitting in
Rijiyar Zaki on Monday sentenced, Rabiu
Sani, 22, to 30 months imprisonment for theft
of slippers.
The Senior Magistrate, Aminu Fagge,
sentenced Sani to two years and six months
after he pleaded guilty to a one-count charge.
Fagge did not give the convict of Aisami
Quarters in Kano an option of fine.
Prosecutor Yusuf Sale had told the court that
Surajo Umar of Kurna Quarters, Kano, reported
the case to Nasarawa Police Division, Kano,
on Sept. 16.
Sale said on the same date at about 8 p.m
the convict went to the complainant’s
business place at Gidan Gashash Singer
Market Kano.
He said Sani “used razor blade and tore the
sack where the complainant Umar kept his
goods and stole one roll of bath room slippers
containing 35 pairs valued N6, 000.
Sale also told the court that the convict was
charged for theft at Chief Magistrate Court
and sentenced to three months imprisonment
or a fine of N10, 000 on Feb. 5, 2016.
He added that Sani was also sentenced to six
months imprisonment or a fine of N20, 000 at
the same court on April 7, for theft.
The prosecutor said this was the fourth time
the accused was arraigned for theft this year,
stressing that the offence contravened
Section 285 of the Penal Code.





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