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Gateman jailed 4 months for selling employer’s dogs

An Australian Shepherd Dog

An Australian Shepherd Dog

A Karu Grade 1 Area Court, Abuja, on Thursday sentenced a 28-year old gateman, Magwep Kwapyen, to four months imprisonment for selling his employer’s Australian dogs valued N210,000.

Kwapyen, who resides at Nyanyan, pleaded guilty to a two-count charge of joint act and stealing, and begged for leniency.

The presiding officer, Hassan Ishaq, gave the convict an option of N10,000 fine, and warned him not to repeat the act.

He also ordered that the police should return the recovered dog to the owner.

Prosecutor Fidelis Okoro had told the court that the convict was reported by Ebuka Vistus at the Nyanyan Police Station on June 8.

Okoro said that the complainant reported to the police that Kwapyen, conspired with Mathias Jude to steal two of his dogs valued N210,000.

The prosecutor said that the complainant told police that the gateman removed the dogs from their cage and sold them without his consent.

Okoro said that during police investigations, the defendant confessed selling the two dogs for N11,000 to one Victor, who had also been arrested.

The prosecutor added that one of the stolen dogs had been recovered and in police custody while the other had been killed.

“Police investigations revealed that one of the dogs, a male, had been killed while the female one was recovered,’’ he said.

Okoro said that the offences contravened Sections 79 and 287 of the Penal Code

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