A Kaduna Chief Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday ordered a 45-year-old man, Dennis Dogo, to sweep the court premises for 40 days for stealing a mattress.
Dogo, a resident of Ungwan Pama, Kaduna, was charged with criminal conspiracy and stealing.
The Magistrate, Ibrahim Emmanuel, sentenced Dogo after he pleaded guilty to theft.
Emmanuel held that the court was lenient on the convict because he did not waste the judge’s time by pleading guilty.
He advised Dogo to desist from committing crime and look for something meaningful to do, rather than indulge in crime.
He added that “the court will not be lenient with you if you continue with the life of crime.”
Earlier, the Prosecutor, Insp. Chidi Leo, had told the court that the matter was reported by one Mary Samson on July 8.
Leo said Dogo and two others at large, broke into Samson’s shop located at Sabon Tasha, Kaduna, and stole a Mouka mattress valued at N206,000.
He said the convict was caught and handed over to authorities by a security guard, while the two others fled.
The prosecutor said the offences contravened the Kaduna State Penal Code, 2017.
