A 34-year-old applicant, Anthony Nnakanagu has been punished by the Gudu Upper AREA Court in the Federal Capital Territory; Abuja with six strokes of the cane for stealing four pieces of toilet tissue valued N200.
Nnkanagu, a resident of Airport Road, Abuja, was convicted on a two-count charge of criminal trespass and theft.
The judge, Alhaji Umar Kagarko, asked Nnakanagu to be of good behaviour and desist from committing crime after receiving the punishment.
The Prosecutor, Oyeyemi Adeniyi, had told the court that one Fidelis Agba attached to Bolton White hotel, Area 11, Garki, Abuja, reported the matter at the Garki Police Station on January 7 this year.
He said that the convict criminally trespassed into the said hotel, pretending to be a customer and entered one of the hotel toilets to ease himself.
Adeniyi said while the convict was in the toilet, he dishonestly stole four pieces of toilet paper valued at N200 only.
He further said that the said toilet tissue was found in the convict’s possession and the offences contravened Sections 348 and 287 of the Penal Code.
Nnakanagu, however, pleaded guilty and plead for leniency. [myad]
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