A Sharia Court in Kano State on Thursday remanded a 25-year-old man, Hassan Adamu, for stealing 15 cemetery iron signboards from a cemetery.
The police charged Adamu, who resides in Unguwar Dabai, in Gwale Local Government Area of Kano with criminal trespass and theft.
The defendant pleaded guilty to the two count charge.
The Judge, Malam Umar Lawal-Abubakar, however admitted the defendants to be remanded in prison for six month.
Lawal-Abubakar also ordered that he should be given 30 lashes of cane.
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Earlier, the Prosecution counsel, Insp Abdullahi Wada told the court that the case was reported on Aug. 21, at the Dala police station by Bello Aliyu, who resides in Kansakali Quarters in Gwale Local Government Are of Kano.
Wada said the defendant trespassed into the cemetery and stole the iron signboards.
Meanwhile two brothers – Oluwatoyin Nejo, 45, and Oworinde Nejo, 50, on Thursday appeared before an Okitipupa Chief Magistrates’ Court in Ondo State, over alleged N160,000 fraud.
The defendants, a mechanic and farmer respectively, of no fixed addresses, are facing a three-count charge of misdemeanour, assault and Advance Fee Fraud.
The prosecutor, Insp. Ayodeji Omoyeigha, told the court that the defendants committed the offences on June 6, at about 12.00p.m. at Ode Erinje, Okitipupa Local Government area of the state.
Omoyeigha said that the defendants fraudulently obtained the sum of N160,000 from the complainant, Modupe Akingboyei under the pretence of leasing a palm tree farmland to her.
He added that the defendants also assaulted the complainant when she asked for a refund of her money.
The prosecutor said that the offences contravened Sections 516, 419 and 351 Criminal Code, Cap.37, Vol. 1, Laws of Ondo State, 2006.
The defendants, however, pleaded not guilty to the charge.
The Chief Magistrate, Mr Patrick Ajele, granted the defendants bail in the sum of N200, 000 each and one surety each in like sums.
Ajele said that the surety, who must reside within the court jurisdiction, should present evidence of two years tax payment to the state government.
He adjourned the case until Aug. 30, for further hearing.
