Job Applicant Remanded For Stealing Church Chairs, Water

An Upper Area Court in Karu, Abuja, on Friday, remanded a job applicant, Shedrach Johnson, who pleaded guilty to stealing 100 pieces of plastic chairs.

The News Agency of Nigeria reported that the police charged Johnson with criminal trespass and theft.

The judge, Malam Hassan Mohammed, deferred the sentence and adjourned the case until March 24 for sentence.

Mohammed ordered that the convict be remanded in the Keffi Custodial Centre.

Earlier, the prosecution counsel, Mr Olarewaju Osho, told the court that the matter was reported by one Pastor Uche Eke of Gidan Daya, Orozo, Abuja.

Osho told the court that the convict criminally trespassed into the complainant’s church and stole 100 plastic chairs and three bottled water.

He said the convict was arrested with the help of security men on duty and three plastic chairs were recovered from him and a pack of bottled water.

Johnson pleaded guilty but begged for leniency.