A Jos Magistrates’ Court on Friday sentenced a 28-year-old trader, Senlong Sule, to one year imprisonment for damaging the windshield of a tricycle.
Magistrate Shawomi Bokkos summarily sentenced Sule after he pleaded guilty.
Bokkos, however, gave the convict an option to pay a N20,000 fine and also ordered him to pay N35,000 as compensation to the complainant.
The magistrate said the punishment would serve as a deterrent to other would-be offenders.
Earlier, the Prosecution Counsel, Insp Ibrahim Gokwat, told the court that the case was reported on Nov. 29, 2023, at the “C” Division Police Station Jos by one Shamsudeen Abdullahi, the complainant.
The prosecutor said the convict smashed the windshield of the tricycle where the complainant parked it.
The offence, according to the prosecutor, is punishable under the provisions of the Plateau state Penal Code Law.
