Court orders 12 strokes of cane on 16 year old convict.

A Senior Magistrate, Aliyu Shafa, ordered the police to cane the convict in public after he pleaded guilty to stealing 17 pieces of scaffold clips valued at N150,000.

Shafa directed that the police should hand him over to the traditional ruler of Abaji, where he came from because he was still a minor.

The police prosecutor, Mr. Abdullahi Alhassan, had told the court that Mr Kunle Adebayo, of suite B 19, AdemolaAdetokunbo Valley Mall, Wuse II, Abuja, reported the case to the Mabushi police Station.

Alhassan said the convict went to Adebayo’s building’s site at Jabi II, Abuja, and stole 17 pieces of scaffold clips valued N150,000.

He said during investigation, the scaffold clips were recovered from the convict’s at Mpape area.

The offence contravenes Section 287 which stipulates that “whoever commits theft shall be punished with imprisonment for a term, which may extend to five years or with fine or with both.”

The convict pleaded guilty saying, “My lord, forgive me. I will not do that again and I am ready to go back home.’’

The 16–year-old boy was then publicly given 12 strokes of the cane on Tuesday on the orders of the Court which found him guilty of theft, News Agency of Nigeria reports.