A 20-year old Awwalu Ali has
been sentenced to 90 days
imprisonment for stealing a toilet
door at the Calvary Faith Baptist
Church, Life Camp, Abuja. The verdict has been
read at Abuja Magistrates' Court on August 28,
2013, Wednesday.
Mr. Abdullahi Illela, the Magistrate, who convicted
Ali, said that it would serve as a deterrent to
others.
The Magistrate, however, gave the convict an
option to pay a fine of N2,500.
Simon Emmanuel, the Prosecutor, previously told
the court that one Adebiyi Laniyan of the Calvary
Baptist Church reported the crime at the Life
Camp Police Station on August 24.
Emmanuel said that the convict broke into the
church compound and removed the door to the
toilet, but was arrested before he could escape
with it.
Awwalu Ali of Dape village, pleaded guilty to the
charge and urged the court to pardon him.
"I am a family man with a wife and two children;
they will starve to death if I go to jail, please,
have mercy on me, my Lord," he said.
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