A Kubwa Grade 1 Area Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, sentenced three men― Mustapha Haruna, Biliya Usman, and Ibrahim Sani, to five months imprisonment each, for stealing microphones and speakers from a church.
The judge, Mohammed Marafa, sentenced the convicts on charges bordering on a joint act, criminal trespass, house-breaking, theft and abetment.
Marafa, however, gave the convicts an option of N15,000 fine each and warned them to desist from committing a crime.
He also sentenced one Ibrahim Abubakar to six imprisonments for receiving stolen property, saying that if there was no receiver of stolen goods there would be no thief.
The judge gave Abubakar an option of N20,000 fine, and ordered for all the convicts to be given 3 strokes of the cane.
He also advised the complainant, Deacon Segun Lanloye, to institute a civil action for compensation of the items that were not recovered.
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