A Jimeta Chief Magistrate Court, Yola, Adamawa, on Friday sentenced three men to 10, seven and five years imprisonment for conspiring and stealing household items.

The convicts, Aliyu Adamu, 24, Ahmed Musa, 18, and Adamu Aliyu, 21, all of Malamre Yola, pleaded guilty to the charge and begged the court for leniency.

Delivery Judgment, Chief Magistrate Musa Adamu, held that he convicted and sentenced the three suspects based on their plea of guilty to the offence.

“Having considered the plea of the convicts, a crime such as this should be discouraged in society, where a group of people visit homes at night to steal, threaten and instil fear in people.

“I hereby sentence Aliyu Adamu, Ahmed Musa and Adamu Aliyu to six months imprisonment for the offence of criminal conspiracy or pay a fine of N50,000 each.

“Also that you, Aliyu Adamu, Ahmed Musa and Adamu Aliyu are hereby sentenced to 10 years, seven years and five years imprisonment without an option of fine for the offence of theft in a dwelling house, the sentence would thereby run concurrently,’’he said.

Adamu said that the convicts were given 30 days right of appeal or serve the term.

Earlier, the Police Prosecutor Insp Galion Neron, told the court that the convicts were arraigned on a two-count charge bordering on criminal conspiracy and theft.

Neron said that on Dec. 20, 2023, at about 4:00 p.m, the complainant Mamoud Yahaya of Malamre reported the matter at Karewa Police Station Yola.

He alleged that the suspects criminally conspired together and broke into the complainant’s brother’s house, Isah Yahaya, located at Malamre.