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Man, 26, jailed 6 months for stealing car battery

Man, 26, jailed 6 months for stealing car battery
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By Deborah Akpede
Lagos, Dec. 28, 2017 (NAN) A 26-year-old unemployed, Alex Godwin, is to spend the next six months in prison for stealing a car battery, an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, has ruled.
The Magistrate, Mrs O.J. Awope, pronounced the verdict after the accused pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing on Thursday.
Awope, who sentenced Godwin without an option of fine, said the convict should serve the sentence with hard labour.
“You are hereby sentenced to six months imprisonment with hard labour and without an option of fine.
“The sentence would serve as a deterrent to others who might want to engage in similar acts,” she said.
Godwin, a resident of Alagbado in Ogun, had at his arraignment on Dec. 4 pleaded guilty to the offence and was remanded in prison.
When the case was called up for fact and sentence, he still admitted guilt but pleaded with the court to temper justice with mercy in sentencing him.
Earlier, the Prosecutor, ASP Ezekiel Ayorinde, had told the court that the accused committed the offence on Nov. 27 at Iju Road, Agege, Lagos.
He said that the accused stole a motor battery whose value and owner yet unknown.
“The accused was caught with the battery by security guards on the street.
“When he was questioned, he confessed that he removed the battery inside a commercial bus parked along the road,” he said.
The offence contravened Section 287 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015 (Revised). (NAN)
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Edited by Maureen Atuonwu/Muhammad Suleiman Tola

Health

LG hands over child-battering evangelist to police

 

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Evangelist

Jos, Feb. 14 (2017) A 43-year-old evangelist, Christopher Sule, accused of torturing his two children, has been apprehended by the social welfare office of Jos South Local Government, and handed over to the police.

According to Mr Garba Mancha, the Social Welfare Officer, the office took the action after it discovered that the father had persistently used cable wires to beat his two children, aged eight and six.

“We found the children with deep wounds on their bodies; the situation was just horrible,” he said.

Mancha told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in Jos on Tuesday, that the children had endured the torture “for three years”.

“The shocking aspect is that even their mother did not report to anyone,” he said.

He said that when the report was received, the welfare office summoned Sule and called in the police to take over the matter.

According to him, Sule attributed his actions to the poor academic performance of the children.

Other offences included alleged stealing, stubbornness and returning late, when sent on errands.

“The father, in his statement, confessed to using cable and antenna wires, as well as sticks, to beat the children,” Mancha said..

Mancha said that the mother also attributed the beatings to their poor performance in school as well as stubbornness.

The welfare officer, however, said that same marks were found on the back of the mother when a thorough check was carried out on her.

He said that Sule, however, denied beating the wife, but admitted that they fought when she she slapped him.

“During the fight, I used the same wires on her,” he said.

Sule’s wife, Rachael, however denied being  brutalised by her husband, but said that she had reported the persistent assault on the children, to family members without result.

Mancha quoted Rachael as describing her husband as “a very loving and caring man, who does not take kindly to poor academic performance and any misbehaviour by the children”.

 

The social welfare officer regretted that women and child battering was on the rise, and advised victims to report any abuse to his office. (NAN)

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Edited by Emmanuel Nwoye and Ephraims Sheyin