A 19-year- old street trader, Emeka
Chukwumuata, was on Friday sentenced to two months imprisonment by the Special
Offences Court, Alausa, Ikeja, for selling a cassava-stuffed Nokia phone.
“I am usually lenient to young people but you have to go in for inflicting pain on people,’’
the Magistrate, Mrs O. Kushanu said.
“It is unfortunate that it is the young people who are being brought to the court, the manufacturer should be raided and brought to court,’’ she said.
The The accused was sentenced after he had pleaded guilty to the charge.
The prosecutor, Mr Babatunde Sunmonu, said that the accused committed the offence at about 11:00 a.m. on Medical Road, Ikeja.
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