The Eko Electricity Distribution Company on Wednesday said the Yaba Magistrate Court in Lagos had sentenced a 32-year-old man, Ismaila Mabodu, to six-month imprisonment for theft of 10 metres of armoured copper cable at a substation around the Nigerian Railway Corporation premises, Yaba.
The power firm quoted the police prosecutor in charge of the case, Mr. Amoke Akinyele, as saying that the man was arrested by some policemen from the NRC on the August 3, 2017 at about 3.45 am while attempting to cart away the cable after severing it from a distribution substation.
It said the accused, who was subsequently arraigned on a two-count charge of willful damage and theft of earth cable, pleaded guilty and the presiding Magistrate, Mr. Olalekan Aka-Bashorun, adjourned the case for facts and sentencing.
According to the statement, when the case came up again on August 14, 2017, the accused repeated his guilty plea after the prosecutor had tendered the 10 metres of earth cable recovered from him as well as statements made by prosecution witnesses as exhibits.
Delivering judgement on the case, the magistrate said the offence contravened sections 285 and 350 of the criminal law of Lagos State and the accused was, on this ground, sentenced to six-month imprisonment on each of the two counts.
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