3 jailed for assault, robbery

A Karmo Grade 1 Area Court, Abuja, yesterday, sentenced three men, Mohammed Aliyu, Abdullahi Kabiru, and Mohammed Abdullahi, to five months in prison for attacking and stealing N3,500 and a cell phone from one Mr Chidi Amadi.
The accused, all of Lento, Life Company, Abuja, had pleaded guilty to a two-count charge of joint act and theft.
The judge, Mr Maiwada Inuwa, while sentencing the convicts, however, gave each of them an option of N7,000 fine and warned them to be of good behaviour and desist from committing crimes.
The convicts were taken to the Keffi Prisons, as they could not pay the fines.
Earlier, the prosecutor, Mrs Ukagha Ijeoma, informed the court that on July 16, one Mr Chidi Amadi of the same address reported the case at Life Camp Police Station.
Ijeoma said that on July 14, 2018, at about 9pm while the complainant was on his way from Jabi to Lento, the accused, who were riding a tricycle stopped and attacked him with a knife.
She said that the accused stabbed the complainant on the chest and caused him serious injury, adding that the y criminally collected the complainant’s wallet containing N3,500 and cell phone valued N10,000.
The prosecutor said that the accused were later arrested and they confessed to having committed the crime.
She said that the offence contravened Sections 79 and 287 of the Penal Code