By Joy Kaka
A 33-year-old driver, Lawrence Kantiok has been sentenced to two months imprisonment in addition to paying N10 million compensation for stealing 50,000 thousand dollars from his boss, Chijioke Chukwu in Abuja.
Kantiok was docked before a Chief Magistrates’ Court in Wuse, Abuja on charges bordering on criminal breach of trust and theft by servant by the police.
The Prosecution counsel, Bale Nimnan, had told the court that the plaintiff reported the matter through a written petition addressed to the Assistant Inspector General of Police, Zone 7, Abuja on Aug. 31.
Nimnan said that Kantiok, the driver to the plaintiff, stole the said sum from the car of his boss.
He said the boss had received the money from a Bureau de change to pay his children’s school fees abroad on July 10, 2023.
He added that Kantiok ran away with the car keys and switched off his phone until he was traced and arrested by the police.
The offence, he said, contravene the provisions of Sections 314 and 227 of the Penal Code.
Kantiok pleaded guilty and begged the court for mercy, saying that he took the money because his boss does not cater to his needs.
He also added that part of the money was also stolen from him.
The Magistrate, Abubakar Sadiq sentenced Kantiok to one month imprisonment on each charge to be served concurrently without an option of fine.
Sadiq ordered the convict to pay the sum of N10 million compensation to the complainant, Chukwu and warned him to desist from committing crime and be of good behaviour.
Source; PM News