An Area Court in Jos, Plateau State, on Monday sentenced one Suleiman Ibrahim to six months’ imprisonment for swindling a businessman.
The judge, Mrs Shawomi Bokkos, sentenced the convict after he pleaded guilty to criminal breach of trust and begged the court for leniency.
The judge, however, gave the convict an option of a fine of N30,000.
Earlier, the Police Prosecutor, Insp. Ijuptil Thlawur, told the court that the case was reported at the ‘C’ Division Police Station on March 4 by one Mr. Kamal Musa, the complainant.
He said that the complainant gave the convict the sum of N230,000 for the construction of a grinding machine, adding that rather than utilise the money for the purpose it was meant for, the convict diverted it.
The prosecutor said that during a police investigation, the convict confessed to having converted the amount to his personal use and failed to construct the grinding machine.
The offence, he said, contravened the Plateau State Penal Code Law of Northern Nigeria of 2017.
