Man bags 6 strokes of cane, fine for theft of 2 phones

Upper Region Court in Abuja has

supposedly sentenced a man to six weeks

detainment streaming the burglary of two

telephones.

The judge, Alhaji Umar Kagarko, passing the

judgment on Thursday, June 9, 2016, supposedly

gave the suspect, Mr John Okeke , the alternative of

fine in the whole of N8000, and requested that he

be whipped six strokes of the stick.

Alhaji Kagarko additionally exhorted Mr Okeke to keep away from

criminal exercises taking after the discipline for

his wrongdoing.

Mr Okeke was apparently charged on a three-

check charge of criminal trick, criminal

trespass and robbery.

As indicated by Vanguard, the Prosecutor,

Kufreabasi Ebong , revealed to the court that

one Friday Ahmed of Wumba Town, Abuja, was

in charge of reporting the case at the Apo

Police headquarters on May 27, 2016.

Ahmed is accounted for to have guaranteed that Mr

Okeke schemed with one Onye , who is still at

substantial, and criminally trespassed into his room

what's more, stole one Nokia phone and one Itel

phone esteemed at N10, 000 and N7, 000,

individually.

Mr Ebong additionally uncovered that the phones

have been recuperated from Okeke amid the

police examinations, including that Mr Okeke's

offense repudiated Segments 97, 348 and 288

of the Reformatory Code.