360 Gist Pilot: Court jails man 30 months for stealing slippers

Tuesday, 27 September 2016

Court jails man 30 months for stealing slippers

360 GP gathered that the Kano Senior Magistrates’ Court sitting in Rijiyar Zaki sentenced one man, Rabiu Sani, 22, to 30 months imprisonment for stealing slippers on Monday.

Senior Magistrate, Aminu Fagge, sentenced Sani after he pleaded guilty to a one-count charge.

The Magistrate did not give the convict an option of fine.


The Prosecutor Yusuf Sale told the court that Surajo Umar of Kurna Quarters, Kano, reported the case to Nasarawa Police Division, Kano, on September 16.

He added that on same date at about 8 p.m the convict went to the complainant’s business place at Gidan Gashash Singer Market Kano.

He said Sani “used razor blade and tore the sack where the complainant Umar kept his goods and stole one roll of bath room slippers containing 35 pairs valued N6, 000."

Sale revealed  to the court that the convict was charged for theft at Chief Magistrate Court and sentenced to three months imprisonment or a fine of N10, 000 on Feb. 5, 2016.

He added that Sani  was to sentenced to six months imprisonment or a fine of N20, 000 at the same court on April 7, for theft.

The prosecutor claims that it was the fourth time the accused was arraigned for theft this year, stressing that the offence contravened Section 285 of the Penal Code.

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