An artisan identified as Denis Habila, has been sentenced to three months imprisonment by a Grade 11 Area Court sitting in Kabusa Abuja, for stealing electrical wires worth N360,000 from a church on Wednesday.
While delivering judgment on the case, the judge, Malam Abubakar Sadiq summarily sentenced Habila following a guilty plea.
The judge gave Habila an option of N10,000 fine.
The prosecution counsel, O. S. Osho, had earlier told the court that the complainant, Achaba Ezekiel who lives in Kabusa Area of Abuja reported the matter at the Kabusa Police Station on July 5.
Osho further said the convict broke into the Redeem Christian Church of God, Tasha road in Kabusa and stole electrical wires and rechargeable speaker all worth N360,000.
He disclosed that some of the church members caught the convict while he was hiding in the ceiling.
He added that, the offence contravened Sections 287 of the Penal Code.
