An 18-year-old boy in Adamawa State has confessed to stealing soft drinks to mark his birthday.
The boy, Aminu Abdulazeez of Bazza community in Michika LGA, said he carted away half crates of nutri milk and Dudu mineral brand respectively to celebrate his birthday with his friends.
He landed in jail after he was trailed and apprehended while he was making further preparation for the event.
Aminu made his confession to the Adamawa State Jail Delivery Committee which was on a review visit to where he was being held at the Mubi Correctional Centre.
The Area Court I Bazza had sent him to the centre after finding him guilty and sentencing him to three months with option of a N40,000 fine.
He had gone to the centre last month after failing to pay the fine.
Reviewing his case, the Jail Delivery Committee, headed by the state Chief Judge, Justice Hafsat Abdulrahman, reduced his three months of confinement to three months of community service.
The committee ordered that he be taken back to Bazza to sweep public facility, a health centre or police station, for three months.
