Guards jailed 9 months for stealing tank in Abuja

A Dei-Dei area court in Abuja on Monday sentenced three security guards, Dauda Ibrahim, Musa Hussani and Hassan Saleh, to nine months imprisonment each for stealing a Geepee water tank.

Ibrahim (40), Hussani (30) and Saleh (30), all security guards in Shagari Quarters, Dei-Dei, pleaded guilty to a three-count charge of criminal conspiracy and theft and begged the court for leniency.

The Judge, Saminu Suleiman, gave the convicts an option of N20,000 fine each and also ordered them to pay N50,000 as compensation to the owner of the tank.

Earlier, the prosecution counsel, Mr Chinedu Ogada, told the court that the complainant, Rabiu Bello, of the same address, reported the matter at the Dei-Dei Police Station on January 26.

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Ogada said that on the same date, the accused criminally conspired and went into a compound in Shagari Quarters belonging to one Halima Ibrahim and stole one Geepee water storage tank worth N200,000 and an angle iron valued at N200,000.

The prosecutor said that during police investigation, the convicts made a confessional statement and the tank was recovered from them, but that all effort to recover the angle iron proved abortive. (NAN)