Police arraign labourer for stealing ram worth N85,000

A Sharia court in Kano State, yesterday, remanded a 25-year-old man, Hassan Adamu, for stealing 15 iron signposts from a cemetery.

Adamu, who resides in Unguwar Dabai in the Gwale Local Council of Kano,, was charged with criminal trespass and theft.

The defendant pleaded guilty to the two-count charge.

The Judge, Malam Umar Lawal-Abubakar, however, ordered that the defendant be remanded in prison for six months.

Lawal-Abubakar also ordered that he should be given 30 lashes of the cane.

Earlier, the prosecution counsel, Inspector Abdullahi Wada, told the court that Bello Aliyu, who resides in Kansakali Quarters in Gwale Local Council of the state, reported the case on August 21 at the Dala police station.

Wada said the defendant trespassed into the cemetery and stole the signposts.

Also, the police arraigned a labourer, Abubakar Ibrahim, 30, before the same court for allegedly stealing a ram worth N85,000.

The defendant, who lives in Kofar Wambai, Kano Municipal, was charged with theft.

Inspector Abdullahi Wada told the court that the complainant, Yusuf Yakubu, who also resides in the Kofar Wambai area, reported the matter at the Fagge Police Station on Wednesday.

Wada alleged that on the said date, at about 1:00 p.m., the defendant went to where the complainant kept his rams in the market and stole one.

The defendant, however, pleaded not guilty to the charge.

The judge, Lawal-Abubakar, admitted the defendant to bail of N30,000 with one surety and adjourned to September 19 for trial.