A 40-year-old man, Mayowa Okunlola has been jailed for three months by an Area Court in Jos, the Plateau State capital for defrauding a businessman of N280,000.
The judgment was delivered on Thursday by Justice Shawomi Bokkos.
The defendant, who was charged for breach of trust and deceit, pleaded guilty after the charges was read to him.
In Bokkos’ judgment, the convict was a given an option of a N15,000 fine or three months imprisonment and asked to pay the sum of N285,000 as compensation to the complainant or six months imprisonment in default.
According to the police prosecutor, Insp Monday Dabit, one Mr Boniface Asika, on February 6, reported the case at the ‘C’ Division Police station.
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He told the court that the convict begged the complainant to loan him the sum of N280,000 to fix his vehicle with a promise to return the money within four weeks.
The prosecutor further told the court that during a police investigation, the convict confessed to having converted the amount to his personal use and failed to pay as promised.
The offence, he said, contravened the Plateau State Penal Code law of Northern Nigeria.
Meanwhile, there was palpable tension in Osogbo, the Osun State capital on Thursday, as a truck conveying inmates to the State High Court, hit a commercial minibus, injuring two persons.
The incident immediately sparked violent protest, as commercial motorcyclists and some angry youths blocked the popular Olaiya Junction in protest.
Eyewitnesses said the correctional truck driver refused to obey a traffic light that had signalled him to stop and, in the process, hit a minibus, leaving the driver and one of the passengers injured.
As of the time of filing this report, police drafted to the scene, had dispersed the protesters, with teargas.