Court sentences bus conductor to 12 months imprisonment for stealing sewing machine

One 18-year-old bus conductor, Haruna Yau was on Monday sentenced to 12 months imprisonment over arson, stealing and house breaking.

He was sentenced by an Area Court in Jos, on Monday.

Adam Sadiq and Hyacinth Dolnaan, the panel of two magistrates who made the pronouncement did not give Yau any option of fine.

The panel has directed the convict to make a payment of N129,500 as compensation to the complainant.

The court established that the judgment would serve as lesson to those who who would want to involve themselves in such criminal acts.

Insp Monday Dabit, who’s the prosecution Counsel earlier informed the court that the matter was on Oct. 19 brought to the awareness of the law enforcement agency at the Mista Ali Police station by the complainant, one Idris Zaka.

The prosecutor revealed that the convict invaded the house of the complainant, dispossesed the victim of a sewing machine and set the house ablaze.

“The total cost of items set on fire was valued at N129,500,” said the prosecutor.

The prosecutor has also added the offence was in contravention of the sections 329, 272 and 315 of the Plateau Penal Code Law.