- He was charged with criminal trespass and theft by the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC
One Cletus Gandu has been arrested and arraigned for stealing tubers of yam in Kaduna State.
Gandu, an unemployed 40-year-old man, was arraigned before the Magistrates’ Court in Kafanchan.
He was charged with criminal trespass and theft by the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC.
The defendant confessed that he stole two tubers of yam because he was hungry.
Gandu told that “hunger pushed me to steal yam on two occasions. I beg for leniency.”
The presiding judge, Michael Bawa, reserved sentencing until Aug.6, following the defendant’s guilty plea.
Bawa ordered that he should be remanded.
Earlier, the NSCDC Prosecutor, Mr Marcus Audu told the court that the complainant, Alice Daniel reported the matter at the corp’s office in Kafanchan on July 15.
Audu alleged that the defendant stole the yams from the complainant’s farm in Zonkwa on two occasions.
He said that the offence contravened the provisions of sections 327 and 270 of the Kaduna State Penal Code Law