A Magistrate Court in Jos on Wednesday sentenced a 24- year-old student, Emmanuel Epke, to one-month imprisonment for stealing two phones.
The judge, Shawomi Bokkos, sentenced Epke after he pleaded guilty to the charge preferred against him.
Bokkos said that the punishment was to serve as a deterrent to others who may want to indulge in the same act.
The magistrate, however, gave the convict an option of ₦10,000 fine.
Earlier, the Prosecution Counsel, Inspector Ibrahim Gokwat, told the court that the case was reported on February 28, at Anglo-Jos Police Station by one Ezekiel Agu, the complainant.
Gokwat said that the convict trespassed into the complainant’s house and stole two phones valued at ₦140,000.
“During police investigation, the convict was found with the two phones,” the prosecution counsel said.
The offence, he said, was punishable under the Plateau State Penal Code Law.
