A Jos Magistrates’ Court on Friday sentenced a 20-year-old fuel attendant, Henry Dung to six months imprisonment for stealing N521,000.
Magistrate Shawomi Bokkos, summarily sentenced Dung after he pleaded guilty.
Bokkos, however, gave the convict an option to pay a N20,000 fine and also ordered him to pay N370,000 as compensation to the complainant.
The magistrate said the punishment would serve as a deterrent to other would-be offenders.
Earlier, the Prosecution Counsel, Insp Ibrahim Gokwat told the court that the case was reported on Aug.28, at the Area Command Police Station Jos by Mr Eric Iheoma, the complainant.
The prosecutor said the convict was manipulating the POS to make extra money for himself until the company employed an auditor.
Adding that on further search the sum of N143,730 was found on the convict also a phone, shoe, sandal, and some clothing which he claimed he used the money to buy.
The offence, according to the prosecutor, is punishable under the provisions of the Plateau state Penal Code Law.