Does This Happen Only in Nigeria?

Within the last one week, two different courts have sent powerful messages to both the poor and the rich in the country.

On Wednesday, in Abeokuta, a magistrate court headed by Idowu Olayinka sentenced 49-year-old Mustapha Adesina to two years in prison for stealing vegetables valued N5, 000.

This Monday, in Abuja, a former director of the Police Pension Board, Yakubu Yusuf, who admitted he stole N32.8 billion, received an even lighter sentence from Justice Abubakar Talba of the FCT High Court: two years in jail or payment of N750, 000 fine.

In other words, the latter convict was told to pay 0.0015 of what he stole and walk home free while the former, who probably could not pay the N10, 000 fine given him as an option, would spend the next two years in jail for stealing N5,000 worth of Vegetable.

The lesson therein...Whenever you decide to steal, steal big because it is crystal clear that Nigeria does not favour small crooks.

Source: CKN


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