Beggar bags 5 weeks imprisonment for criminal trespass, theft


A Grade Two Area Court in Kado, Abuja, on Tuesday sentenced one Sani Abubakar to five weeks in prison after he pleaded guilty to a two-count charge of criminal trespass and theft.
The presiding officer, Malam Ahmed Ado, gave the convict an option to pay N2,000 in fine.
“I will not do it again. It is because I don’t have clothes; that was why I committed such an offence,’’ the convict said.
The police prosecutor, Sgt. Simon Ibrahim, had asked that the convict be tried summarily under Section 157 Sub-Section 1 of the Criminal Procedure Code.
Section 157 (1) states that an accused person’s admission “shall be recorded as nearly as possible in the words used by him’’ if he admits that he has committed the offence of which he is accused.
It states further that “if the accused shows no sufficient cause why he should not be convicted, the court may convict him accordingly and in that case it shall not be necessary to frame a normal charge.’’
Abubakar, a 20-year-old beggar, at Wuse Market in Abuja, was tried on a two-count charge of criminal trespass and theft.
Ibrahim had earlier told the court that one Christian Augustine lodged the report against the convict at Utako Police Station on May 10.
He said the convict had gone into Augustine’s premises at 5, Bukar Dapcharima Close in Utako where he stole some clothes on May 9.
Abubakar, who admitted that the clothes he was wearing were some of the ones he stole, pleaded for leniency. (NAN)

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