{"id":17900,"date":"2024-02-19T09:04:03","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T09:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/court-jails-cobbler-1-year-over-illegal-possession-of-firearm\/"},"modified":"2024-02-19T09:04:03","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T09:04:03","slug":"court-jails-cobbler-1-year-over-illegal-possession-of-firearm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/court-jails-cobbler-1-year-over-illegal-possession-of-firearm\/","title":{"rendered":"Court jails cobbler 1 year over illegal possession of firearm"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A Jos Magistrates\u2019 Court on Monday sentenced a 26-year-old cobbler, Jude Jatau, to a year in jail without an option of fine.<\/p>\n<p>Jatau had pleaded guilty to illegal possession of a locally-made pistol.<\/p>\n<p>Magistrate Shawomi Bokkos summarily tried him, convicted and sentenced him.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the sentence would serve as a deterrent to such a crime.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecutor, Insp Ibrahim Gokwat, had informed the court that the gun was discovered by police officers on routine search.<\/p>\n<p>Gokwat said the convict tied a locally-made gun around his waist.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the offense was punishable under the Plateau Penal Code Law.<\/p>\n<p>Court jails cobbler 1 year over illegal possession of firearm<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Jos Magistrates\u2019 Court on Monday sentenced a 26-year-old cobbler, Jude Jatau, to a year in jail without an option&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10931,614,384,15],"tags":[10932,135,387,180],"class_list":["post-17900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cobbler","category-court","category-metro","category-news","tag-cobbler","tag-court","tag-metro","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}