Court Jails Public Servant For Stealing Pillow Cases

An Abuja Upper Area
Court last Thursday sentenced a 25-year-old public servant, Joseph Ekunke of New Karu, Nassarawa State, to two months imprisonment for stealing pillow cases.
The Presiding Officer, Mr Ahmed Ado, sentenced Ekunke after he pleaded guilty to the offence.
Ado, however, gave the convict an option to pay a fine of N3,000.
He said the sentence would serve as deterrent to those who might want to engage in similar acts and warned the convict to desist from such acts.
Earlier, the prosecutor, Cpl. Simon Ibrahim, had told the court that the matter was reported by Akinsola Adebayo of Tranquil New Hotel, Utako, Abuja, at the Utako Police Station, Abuja, on January 28.
Ibrahim said the crime was committed on January 27 when Ekunke went to Adebayo’s hotel and stole four pieces of pillow cases, valued at N20,000.
He said Ekunke had confessed that he committed the offence and the pillow cases were recovered from him.
The prosecutor said the offence contravened the provisions of Section 288 of the Penal Code.