A Gudu Upper Area Court in the Federal Capital Territory, on Thursday, sentenced a 24-year-old applicant, Monday Patrick, to six weeks imprisonment for stealing N5,000 tithe inside a church.
The judge, Alhaji Umar Kagarko, however, gave Patrick an option of N6,000 fine and warned him to desist from committing crime.
Patrick, a resident of Aso in Mararaba, Nasarawa State, was convicted on a two-count charge of criminal trespass and theft.
Prosecutor, John Ijagbemi, had told the court that one Ademola Adetuberu of Coza Church, Asokoro in the FCT, reported the matter at the Asokoro Police Station on November 24.
He said while the complainant was praying in the said church, the convict came in and stole an envelope containing the tithe from the altar.
Patrick pleaded guilty and begged for leniency.
Ijagbemi said during investigation, the money was recovered from Patrick.
The offence, the prosecutor said, contravened sections 348 and 288 of the Penal Code.
Tribune reportage.
*Steal tithes?WOW!
He stole tithe?
ReplyDeleteLol
Nawa oooh.
DeleteAlways quick to sentence poor men while they idolize the big thieves.
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It's not a matter off idolizing big thieves. Stealing is stealing abeg
DeleteExactly my thought, politicians have been stealing us dry, yet no one ever goes to jail, the ones that end up in jail re the ones they don't like, our law only fabours the poor, how I hate this country
DeleteHahahahaha....
ReplyDeleteAre you suprised?...things like this happens all the time in churches....
LOL.
ReplyDeleteThere are different reasons people go to church. Some people go to see friends, some to worship God and some to STEAL
ReplyDeleteSome go to show off dresses while others go to see some other people's dressing
DeleteLmao! Stells, the guy collect small from the goodies that God has in store for him na.....
ReplyDeleteNawao! People don dey get mind enter church for broad daylight collect God money. Of a truth, the world's at its end.
What? He just heaped a coal on his own head!
ReplyDeleteOrishirishi
ReplyDeleteWhy not? He only moved faster than the pastor who would have stolen it too!
ReplyDeleteThat church with their ashawo pastor that fucked his member and denied it all, poor girl, na u open pussy for married man, i blame you too.... and yet his gullible blinded sheep kept applauding when he said he'd come up with a robust reply, its been yrs now oh, pastor fatoyinbo abi wats his name sef, we hvnt heard a peep....
ReplyDeleteDid he even deny it abi he just kept mute
DeleteBe careful with what you say
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DeleteHe couldn't resist temptation.
ReplyDeleteFor inside church kwa, na wa oo. But wait oo, does it mean that church no longer preach forgiveness? The guy has begged for forgiveness why taken him to court again na, those stealing our money with Ghana must go bag we never hear anyone una don sentence oo. Not in support of stealing though
ReplyDeleteOk, so if some1 comes into the church and kill the pastor, the members should preach forgiveness? Na kweshiun o
DeleteIt is well.
ReplyDeleteStella, why does evrythg come as a shock to you??? na today them begin "thief" for church??
ReplyDeleteStella is the mother of shock. Lmao
DeleteThanks Stella. Black Friday started boring until I came across this & rushed to IG. Well, some accused the lady as fake but my thought maybe NOT cause with a scorned woman you never know & men are never to be trusted. When u have a high profiled wife would you take the risk ? Men don't care anyway. Terrible embarrassing posts on her very own page. Price of fame I guess.
ReplyDeleteEnd time applicant
ReplyDeleteHe just wants to heap curses on himself...
ReplyDeleteThe economy is really hard.
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ReplyDelete#GODWIN™
Hmmmmm na wa oOOh
ReplyDeleteWhen ll people stop stealing in the house of God?
ReplyDeletePoor thief.
ReplyDeleteMay God have mercy on him
Well.... This is not new to me.. But it's very very bad! I wonder the kind of guts people have to do such.. If I 'mistakenly' press my phone in church sef, I feel so guilty. God will help us.
ReplyDeleteThere's a deacon in my church who is in the habit ofdoing this whenever he is asked to count money. Some people noticed, now, whenever he rushes to the offering box, @ least two ushers are assigned to help him 'make the counting easier'... May God have mercy!
He should have been forgiven, even given some help. Jesus would never have reported him to the Police...
ReplyDeleteLol.....
ReplyDeleteI remember in the late 90s, after every collective Sunday mass(esP some of the junior Mass-servers, are fond of dipping their hands in the total offerings for the day in the priests residential quarters. Because they have undue access to that place.
But unknown to them, the Urshers took record of every offering as they are being brought into the inner-room before onward transfer to the priest quarters. After recurring deductions for a whooping 5months. The parish priest set a trap and they were caught and barred. Their parents were also asked to resign from their various posts in the church organisations and committees. It was so shameful that most stopped coming to church for a long time.
And in these present day commercial-church merchants, I'm not surprise that this is happening. An hungry-ridden family man desperate to survive for some days. He allowed the devil to use him. Then again, I think todays church needs all-inclusive welfare package for their members. Just saying though, can't help but laugh. Lol, bad tins dey make person laff die.....
For coza church? Remembered cozagate.
ReplyDeleteEyah brethren pls repent and thief no more
Oh dear!
ReplyDeleteJust imagine!!! Our judiciary system is just a joke. Stealing 5000 send a young man to prison, meanwhile those who steal billions are given chieftaincy title. Sending him to prison is waste of tax payers money. Why not send him to hours of community service to any local government monitored by someone? We are complaining about prison decongestion judges are taking petty criminals to prison.
ReplyDeleteCrazy country.
What's new that you've not heard or seen? If you looking for self centered evil pretender/home wreckers, fake pastors, ex convict, ex prostitute, murderers/ abortion, child molesters, wife beaters, borrow borrow. Shitttttt!
ReplyDeleteEnd time stealer
ReplyDeleteMany are fond of doing such in the house of God!
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