A Zuba Grade 1 Area court in the FCT has sentenced three men to two months imprisonment each for selling the Nigerian currency across the table.The convicts are Malam Abdulwahabi, 32, Salisu Nuhu, 20, and Bashir Mohammed, 20, all of Dei-Dei junction, FCT. They were tried on a one-count charge of public nuisance.
Alhassan Kusherki, the judge, passed the sentence after the accused had pleaded guilty. The judge, however, gave them an option of N15,000 fine each. Police prosecutor Momoh Ibrahim told the court that on May 20, a team of surveillance men attached to Police Divisional Headquarters, Zuba, ,while on patrol on the Dei-Dei – Kubwa expressway had arrested the culprits.
Ibrahim said that the detectives caught Abdulwahabi, Nuhu, and Mohammed selling the currency. Ibrahim said the currency notes were spread on a table like groundnuts at Dei-Dei junction, FCT. The prosecutor said the offence contravened Section 198 of the Penal Code. (NAN)
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