Sales boy to spend Christmas in prison

A 20-year-old, Amuzat Ahmed, is to spend Christmas and New Year festivities in jail for stealing a motorcycle valued at N230, 000 and a Samsung Galaxy phone, an Ogudu Magistrates’ Court ruled in Lagos yesterday.
The Magistrate, Mrs. O. Sule-Amzat, who sentenced Ahmed of Imota in Ikorodu, Lagos State to one-year jail, pronounced him guilty as charged.
The convict had pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing.
Sule-Amzat held that the convict should serve the one year without an option of fine.
“The prosecution established that the convict, a sales boy, deceived and lured the caretaker of the motorcycle to a hotel on the pretext of entertaining him,” she said.
The prosecutor, Lucky Ihiehie, had told the court that the accused committed the offence on September 26 at Ajose Street, Mende, Maryland, Lagos.
He said the complainant, Mr. Abubakar Mohammed, reported the case at Anthony Police Post.
“The complainant left his Bajaj motorcycle registered as AGL 232 QH, valued at N230, 000 and a Samsung Galaxy 03 phone valued at N36, 000 in the care of Husseini Saliu on September 29.
“The accused lured Saliu to a hotel at Mile 12 to entertain him, stole the motorcycle and the phone and ran away.”
Ihiehie said the accused was arrested at Maryland bus stop on October 26.
The offence contravenes Section 287 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State 2015.
|The Nation