A Mararaba Grade 1 Area Court, Aso Pada, Nasarawa State, on Thursday sentenced a 23-year-old bricklayer, Matthew Isaac, to 12 strokes of cane for unlawful possession of army uniform. The presiding officer, Mr Albert Maga, sentenced him after he pleaded guilty and begged for leniency.
Isaac, a resident of Nyanya Gwandara, Nasarawa State, was convicted for being in possession of army uniform, three caps and two boots.
Maga warned the convict to be careful in future with what he goes about holding as he would not take it likely with him next time.
The Prosecutor, Cpl. Friday Adaji, had told the court that Idoko John of Elite Security Organisation, Mararaba, reported the matter at the ‘A’ Division Police Station on Feb. 21.
Adaji said that the convict was caught in possession of army uniform and other items which did not belong to him.
He told the court that during police investigation, the convict confessed that his brother, Matthew Moses, an army personnel gave it to him to keep.
He said the offence contravened Sections 179 of the Penal Code.
NAN
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