Man bags 17 months jail term for stealing phones in Kano

<p>A Shari’a court sitting in Gama PRP Kano State on Tuesday has sentenced Abubakar Musa to 17 months in prison for stealing two cell phones worth 165,000.00.</p>, <p>Abubakar Musa, a resident of Atlanta, is accused of entering a house without permission and committing theft.</p>, <p>Prosecutor, Aliyu Abidin Murtala, read the charges against him before the court and he pleaded guilty.</p>, <p>He said the man entered a house and stole two cell phones worth two hundred and sixty-five thousand naira (165,000.00) when the owner was sleeping at night.</p>, <p>The prosecutor asked the court to consider the. evidence and judge him, and the court accepted the request.</p>, <p>Justice Mallam Nura Yusuf Ahmad, therefore, sentenced him to five months in prison for breaking into a house and one year in prison for the crime of theft.</p>