Court jails 15-year-old boy for stealing dogs
February 12, 2021
A Central Area Court sitting in Kasuwan Nama in Jos on Friday, sentenced a 15-year-old student, Bilal Ibrahim, to six months in prison for stealing two dogs.
A panel of two magistrates, Ghazali Adam and Hyacinth Dolnaan, who sentenced the teenager after he pleaded guilty to the offence, gave him an option to pay a fine of N20,000 or spend three months in prison.
The magistrates also ordered the convict to pay N50,000 in damages and in default to spend another three months in prison.
Earlier, the prosecution counsel, Ibrahim Gokwat told the court that the case was reported at the Angwan Rogo Police Station on January 21, by Hamisu Idris of Angwan Rogo Jos, the complainant.