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Barber sentenced to 15 months in prison for stealing prepaid meters

One 21-year-old, Nura Suleiman has been sentenced by a Grade I Area Court Karu, Abuja to 15 months in prison for stealing five Abuja Electricity Distribution Company prepaid meters from residents on Wednesday, July 10, 2019.

An Electricity Prepaid Meter (Leadership)

The judge, Sani Mohammed gave the convict an option to pay a fine of N45,000.

Mohammed who said there was no excuse for committing crimes warned the convict to change his ways.

Earlier, the prosecutor, Vincent Osuji, told the court that one Abdulsalam Bolaji of Cornershop, Karu, Abuja, reported the matter at the Karu Police Station on July 5.

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The complainant alleged that on same date, the convict trespassed into his compound at the above-mentioned address, deliberately damaged and stole his AEDC prepaid metre before he was caught and apprehended.

After he was arrested, four additional prepaid meters were found in the convict’s possession, which he confessed to have stolen from four different victims.

“However, the five AEDC prepaid metres were recovered from the convict, as he confessed to having committed the crime,” Osuji said.

The offence contravened the provisions of sections 80, 348, 287, 319 and 306 of the Penal Code.

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