A 52-year-old man, Mohammed Lawal of Gwagwa village was at the weekend, sentenced to six months imprisonment by an Abuja Senior Magistrates Court for picking a Senator’s pocket in a hotel in Abuja.
Magistrate Ann Akobi sentenced the convict without an option of fine after listening to the First Information Report on the one-count charge to which the accused pleaded guilty.Police Prosecutor, Abdullahi Adamu had told the court that the matter was reported at Wuse Zone 3 Police Station by Abdullahi Kabiru of Prescort Village, Abuja on September 18, 2012.
He said the convict, under the
pretence of begging, picked Senator Emmanuel Nkwocha’s pocket as the Senator
made his way out of the venue of a function in Abuja.
The prosecutor said that when the
convict was caught he immediately dropped the money he picked from the
Senator’s pocket.
Adamu said that during investigation,
the convict confessed to the offence, which “contravenes the provisions of
Section 287 of the Penal Code’’. Magistrate Akobi said
the convict having pleaded guilty to the charge the court would not fail to
carry out its duty as enshrined in the law.
She added that a man of the convict’s
age with a wife and children should be living an exemplary life and that the
court had decided, after considering his age, to tamper justice with mercy.
(NAN)
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