A Minna
Chief Magistrates’ Court has sentenced one Abubakar Abdullahi to 12 strokes of
the cane for pleading guilty to stealing a fowl.
Magistrate
Hassan Mohammed, however gave the accused an option of five thousand naira fine.
The
police prosecutor, Sergeant Gunduma Ibrahim, told the convict was arrested on
the second of this month, at Mobile Roundabout, Minna, Niger State, with a fowl suspected to
have been stolen, and could not give a satisfactory account of how he got the
animal, valued at N1,500.
When the charge was read to the convict, he pleaded
guilty and pleaded for leniency.
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