A chief Magistrates’ Court in Kafanchan, Kaduna State, has sentenced a 40-year-old Chibuzo Emmanuel to three years in prison for receiving stolen train batteries and cylinders.
The Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) charged Emmanuel and Adamu Danbaba, 52, with theft and receiving stolen property.
Mr Marcus Audu, the NSCDC prosecutor, informed the court that the Nigeria Railway Corporation, North Central District, Kafanchan, filed a complaint at the Corp’s office on May 13.
Audu claimed that Danbaba, a railway employee, took two train batteries and 12kg cylinders from his office before selling them to Emmanuel for N24,000.
The offence, he said, violated sections 271 and 302 of the Kaduna State Penal Code Law.
When the indictment was read to the defendants, Emmanuel pleaded guilty and asked the judge for leniency, but Danbaba rejected the charge.
The prosecutor requested that Emmanuel be tried summarily and that another date be set for witnesses to testify against Danbaba.
Magistrate Michael Bawa condemned Emmanuel to three years in prison and ordered that Danbaba be remanded.
Bawa set a hearing date for June 24.