An Abuja Magistrate's Court on Wednesday sentenced Francis Omonigho, 35, and Musa Idris, 22, to jail for stealing a laptop.
Omonigho and Idris, who both hail from Dagba Village in Garki area of Abuja, are to spend one year and six months behind bars for the theft.
Presiding Magistrate Hafisat Soso, however, gave Omonigho an option to pay N2,000 as fine and Idris N1,000.
Both men had pleaded guilty to the charges, but begged the court for leniency.
The prosecutor, Police Constable Yilkudi Dungji, had told the court that on Oct. 15, Dr Stephen Osiobe of Plot 113, Phase 1, Lugbe, FCT, reported Omonigho and Idris to the police that they forcefully broke into his house and made away with his laptop.
The convicts stole the HP-530 laptop valued at N110,000 and were caught at the scene while trying to escape, he said.
Dungji said during investigation, Omonigho and Idris admitted that they committed the crime, punishable under Sections 79, 340 and 288 of the Penal Code Law.
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