Man Bags 1 Year Imprisonment For Sleeping In Car Park

A Kano State Shari’a Court on Friday sentenced a 24-year-old man, Adamu Yusuf, to one-year imprisonment for wandering.

The judge, Dr Bello Khalid, sentenced Yusuf after he pleaded guilty and begged for leniency.

Khalid, however, gave Yusuf an option to pay a fine of N20,000.

Earlier, the Prosecution Counsel, Inspector Abdul Wada, informed the court that the complainants, Alhaji Maikudi Mohammad, Garba Dawaki, and Abdullahi Musa all of Gandun Albasa Quarters jointly reported the case at the Kwalli Police Division Kano on July 27.

Wada said that at 4 a.m, the defendant was caught sleeping where the complainants parked their vehicles.

He said that the defendant could not give a satisfactory answer to the police when he was caught.

The offence, he said, contravened the provisions of Section 314 of Kano State Shari’a Court Penal Code.

Woman Docked For Defrauding POS Operator

Also, a 21- year- old woman, Auwawu Abubakar, on Friday appeared before an Iyaganku Magistrates’ Court for allegedly stealing N285,000 from a Point of Sale (POS) agent.

The police charged Abubakar, who resides in the Sabo area of Mokola, Ibadan, with conspiracy and theft.

The Prosecution Counsel, Inspector Gbemisola Adedeji, told the court that the defendant and others at large on July 27, at about 3.30 pm at Sabo, stole the money from a POS operator, Aliu Sheriff.

The prosecution said that the defendant asked Sheriff to transfer N285, 000 to three different accounts and he did.

"The defendant refused to pay Sheriff and feigned mental illness,” the prosecution said.

The offense, she said, contravenes the provisions of sections 390 (9) and  516 of the Criminal Code Cap 38 Vol.II, Laws of Oyo State 2000. The defendant pleaded not guilty to the charge.

Magistrate Olajumoke Akande admitted the defendant to bail in the sum of N75, 000 with two sureties in like sum.
Akande adjourned the matter until November 16, for a hearing.