A Grade 1 Area Court in Karu, Abuja, on yesterday sentenced a scavenger, Abdullahi Danjuma, to five months imprisonment for stealing a cow worth N80,000.

Danjuma, who has no fixed address, had pleaded guilty to a two-count charge of stealing and mischief.

The judge, Hassan Ishaq, gave him an option of N13,000 fine on each count.

Ishaq also ordered Danjuma to pay N80,000 as compensation to the owner of the cow, Musa Jaal.

The judge directed Danjuma and Jaal to write an undertaking to maintain peace.

The prosecutor, Mr Mamud Ismail, had told the court that Jaal reported to the Karu Police Station on May 2 that Danjuma killed his cow.

According to Ismail, Jaal said he was looking for his two missing cows and found the lifeless body of one of them with Danjuma.

“He had already killed the cow,’’ the prosecutor said.

Ismail said that Jaal’s fellow herdsmen almost lynched Danjuma before Jaal reported the matter to the police.

The offences, stealing and mischief, contravene sections 287 and 329 of the Penal Code. (NAN)

POSTED BY:OPUOMONI PRIYE

DATE:05/04/2017