On Tuesday, May 23, 2018, three men, Mustapha Haruna, Biliya Usman, and Ibrahim Sani, were each sentenced to five months imprisonment for stealing speakers and microphones from Redeemed Christian Church, in Kubwa, Abuja.
Addressing a Kubwa Grade 1 Area Court, Abuja, the prosecutor, Babajide Olanipekun, said the complainant reported the matter at the Kubwa Police Station on May 13.
He said that Haruna, Usman and Sani, broke into the said church through the window and stole three fans valued at N7,500 each, and two amplifiers engine valued at N50,000 each.
Other items stolen are one speaker valued at N70,000, four microphones valued at N24,000, and one guitar valued at N50,000.
The prosecutor said police investigations revealed that Abubakar dishonestly received the two amplifiers engine, and two microphones at the rate of N3, 000, knowing that they were stolen.
He said the stolen items were recovered except one feedback speaker and two wireless microphones and its speaker.
The judge sentenced Ibrahim Abubakar to six months imprisonment for receiving stolen property, saying that if there was no receiver of stolen goods there would be no thief.
Abubakar was however, given an option of N20,000 fine and the Judge ordered that all the convicts should be given 3 strokes of the cane.
He also advised the complainant, Deacon Segun Lanloye, to institute a civil action for compensation of the items that were not recovered.
The offences contravened Sections 79, 342, 348, 288, 83 and 317 of the Penal Code.
