An Upper Area Court in Gwagwalaga, the Federal Capital Territory, during the week sentenced a labourer, Emmanuel Nwabueze, to nine months imprisonment for stealing a pot of soup.
The judge, Alhaji Alhassan Kusherki, who sentenced the convict after he pleaded guilty to the charge, gave him an option to pay N30,000 fine.
Kusherki ordered the convict to pay N11,000 as compensation to the complainant, Uche Sunday.
Nwabueze, 22, who resides at Angwan Tiv in Gwagwalada, was arraigned on a three-count charge of trespass, house-breaking and theft.
He stole two generators valued at N28,000 and three crates of mineral.
Prosecutor Martha Paul had told the court that the convict broke into the shop of the complainant at Angwan Dodo, stole a pot of soup, two generators and three crates of mineral.
Paul said that the police recovered the generators from the convict during investigation, while the pot of soup and the crates of minerals were yet to be recovered.
She said the offence contravened Sections 348, 347 and 286 of the Penal Code.
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