Kado grade 1 area court in Abuja has sentenced a 27-year-old man, Sunday Vincent, to three weeks imprisonment for the crime of public nuisance.
The judge, Alhaji Abubakar Sadiq, however, gave Vincent the option of paying a N3,000 fine and warned him against committing any other crimes in the future.
The convicted man, of no fixed address, was convicted for wandering around the streets alone and failing to provide a satisfactory explanation about what he was doing to the arresting police officers.
Earlier, the prosecutor, Zeerah Doglass, told the court that the convict was arrested by a police patrol team attached to Ademola Adetokunbo street, Wuse two, Abuja, and taken to Kado Police Station on January 1.
She said that the offence is punishable under Section 198 of the Nigerian Penal Code.
At present, there is no information on whether the convicted man was arrested in a state of intoxication, however given the relative severity of his sentence this was unlikely to have been his first offence.
It is also unknown whether Sunday had any plans to commit other public nuisances than walking down the street.
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