A Dutse Grade 1 Area Court, Abuja, on Wednesday sentenced two brothers, Jacob Musa , 36, and Bameyi Musa, 22, to 10 months imprisonment each for stealing items worth N542, 000.
The judge, Mr Suleiman Mohammed, convicted them on the two-count charge of joint act and theft.
The judge, however, gave the convicts an option of N30, 000 fine each, and also ordered them to refund N288,000, being cost of part of the stolen items.
The judge gave them four weeks to pay the money.
Earlier, the prosecutor, Mrs Idowu Ojo, told the court that the matter was reported at the Bwari Police Station by one Moses Ajiya, of Airport Road, Bwari on Oct. 23, 2018.
Ojo said that the convicts, both residents of Kuduru in Bwari, committed the offence sometime in October 2018.
She told the court that Jacob, who was employed by the complainant in September 2018, as a security guard in his house in Kuduru, Bwari, conspired with his brother,Bameyi, to commit the offence.
” They stole his employers 2.5 cable wire and 2mm service wire valued at N80,000, 77 cartons of Kabul energy drinks valued at N308,000, one plasma television set, valued at N78, 000 and two KVA stabiliser valued at N76, 000.
” Value of all the items together sum up to N542,000.
” Also, during police investigation, parts of the items were found with them, ” the prosecution said.
Ojo said that the offences contravened Sections 79 and 287 of the Penal Code. (NAN)
