Court jails gardener for stealing N130,000 BlackBerry phone

An Abuja Senior Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday sentenced a 22-year-old gardener, Idris Yusuf, to three months in jail for stealing a BlackBerry phone belonging to Mr U

maru Ndanusa of Baze University, Abuja. In the alternative, Senior Magistrate Emmanuel Iyana asked Yusuf to pay a fine of N5,000.

Police prosecutor, Paul Anigbo, told the court that the case was reported at the Lugbe Police Station by one Ahmed Usman, a student of the university, the News Agency of Nigeria reports. The prosecutor said the accused committed the crime three weeks ago and that the phone was worth N130,000.

Anigbo added that the accused was caught with the phone, adding that during police investigation, the gardener confessed to stealing it.