{"id":5291,"date":"2023-12-04T14:01:39","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T14:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/applicant-jailed-4-months-for-stealing-yam\/"},"modified":"2023-12-04T14:01:39","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T14:01:39","slug":"applicant-jailed-4-months-for-stealing-yam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/applicant-jailed-4-months-for-stealing-yam\/","title":{"rendered":"Applicant jailed 4 months for stealing yam"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A Dei-Dei Grade 1 Area Court, Abuja, has sentenced a 22-year-old applicant, Felix Adams, to four months in a correctional centre for stealing some tubers of yam from a school farm.<\/p>\n<p>Adams of no fixed address was charged with criminal trespass and theft.<\/p>\n<p>The Prosecution Counsel, Mr Chinedu Ogada, told the court that the convict committed the offence on October 19.<\/p>\n<p>Ogada said that the police patrol team, led by Mr Tonushi Chibwa, while on patrol arrested and brought the convict to Dutse Alhaji Station on the same date.<\/p>\n<p>He said that on the same date at about 10:00 pm, the patrol team arrested the convict with some tubers of yam suspected to be stolen.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecutor further stated that during police investigation and interrogation, the convict made a confessional statement that he stole the said tubers of yam in a farm at Government Day Secondary School, Dutse Alhaji.<\/p>\n<p>He told the court that the convict said he stole the tubers of yam with the intention to sell them but in the process he was caught.<\/p>\n<p>Ogada said the offence contravenes the provisions of sections 348 and 287 of the Penal Code.<\/p>\n<p>The Area Court Judge, Justice Saminu Suleiman, sentenced the defendant to four months imprisonment with an option of N10,000 fine.<\/p>\n<p>The judge warned him to desist from committing crime in future after serving the punishment.<\/p>\n<p>Applicant jailed 4 months for stealing yam<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Dei-Dei Grade 1 Area Court, Abuja, has sentenced a 22-year-old applicant, Felix Adams, to four months in a correctional&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[614,384,15],"tags":[135,387,180],"class_list":["post-5291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-court","category-metro","category-news","tag-court","tag-metro","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5291","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=5291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}