Security Guards Bag Jail Term For Stealing Cement

A Wuse Zone 2 Senior
Magistrates’ Court Abuja, has sentenced two security guards, Joseph Seldom and Daman Nanum, to two months in prison each for stealing 22 bags of cement.
Senior Magistrate Simisola Adeniyi handed down the judgment after the convicts admitted to committing the offence and pleaded for mercy.
Adeniyi, however, gave the convicts an option of fine in the sum of N10, 000 each.
Earlier, the prosecutor, Sgt. Abdullahi Alhassan, had told the court that the convicts were reported at the Mabushi Police Station by Haruna Andrawas, the storekeeper of the company on April 17.
According to the prosecutor, sometime in March, the complainant fell ill and decided to travel out of Abuja for treatment.
The prosecutor said the complainant entrusted the key to the store with the convicts to assist him in issuing building materials to the construction staff before he left for treatment.
Alhassan said: “instead of the convicts to honour the agreement, they went ahead and stole 22 bags of cement from the store.’’
The prosecutor told the court that during police interrogation, they both confessed to the crime and that N36, 000 being the proceeds from the sale of 18 bags were recovered from them.
He added that the total value of the 22 bags was N44, 000.
Alhassan said that the convicts committed the offences of breach of trust and theft contrary to sections 79, 312 and 288 of the Penal Code.