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Defendant’s criminal records hence it is uncertain whether he is a first
offender.
Nonetheless this Court cannot disregard passionate plea made by
the Defendant’s Counsel. It is noted that the Defendant was caught on the
10th January 2019 and within the time of his arrest he voluntarily elected to
make a confessional statements and relinquished what was still in his
possessions acquired from through illicit conduct.
The convict disclosed his email password which enables the
investigating team gain further accesses to the activities and modus of
similar offenders. There is also evidence that he is 21 years old and is
currently schooling. He has presented himself as one who is remorseful
having regard to his conduct that has brought to fore all his candlestine
activities. The lifespan of this proceedings has also been expeditiously
brought to an end on the very first day the convict was arraigned but for his
cooperation this matter could have lingered and led to the wastes of the
Court’s manpower and indeed the nations recourses.
I am therefore impelled to strike a balance all these competing
considerations vis-à-vis the sentence that is to be imposed by this Court.
In the light of the foregoing considerations as well as this statutory
penalty prescribed in Section, I hereby order one year sentence and fine
in the sum of N100,000.00 (One Hundred Thousand Naira) pursuant to
Section 324 of the Penal code.