20-year old Mr. Awwalu Ali has been sentenced to 90 days imprisonment for stealing a toilet door at the Calvary Faith Baptist Church, Life Camp, Abuja.
Prosecutor, Mr. Simon Emmanuel, told the court that one Mr. Adebiyi Laniyan of the Calvary Baptist Church reported the crime at the Life Camp Police Station on August 24.
According to the Prosecutor, Ali broke into the church compound and removed the door to the toilet, but was arrested before he could escape with it.
Mr. Ali, 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.
In reading the verdict, the Magistrate, Mr. Abdullahi Illela, convicted Ali, saying that it would serve as a deterrent to others.
The Magistrate, however, gave the convict an option to pay a fine of N2,500.
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