A Kuje Upper Area Court, Abuja, on Tuesday sentenced a scavenger, Sani Musa to three months imprisonment for stealing a generating set valued N40, 000.
Musa, who resides at Anguwan Tiv Area in Kuje, was convicted on a one-count charge of theft.
The judge, Abdulahi Abdulkareem, gave the judgment after Musa pleaded guilty of the offence and begged the court for leniency.
Abdulkareem, however, gave him an option to pay N10, 000 as fine.
The judge maintained that the sentence would serve as a deterrent as cases of theft was becoming rampant in the area.
Earlier, the Prosecutor, Doris Okoroba, told the court that one Emeka Okafor of Paseli Area reported the matter at the Kuje Police Station on April 12.
The prosecutor said that the convict entered the complainant’s compound and stole his generating set and was caught trying to put the set in a truck.
Okoroba said the complainant raised alarm and Musa was caught and handed over to the police.
She said during investigation, the convict admitted the offence leveled before him.
The prosecutor said that the offence contravened Section 286 of the Penal Code. (NAN)