Security Guard Bags Six Months Imprisonment For Sleeping On Duty

Security Guard convicted for sleeping on duty.

A Karmo Grade 1 Area Court in Abuja on Monday sentenced a 37-year-old security guard, Nasiru Ribado, who resides at Jabi forest in the Federal Capital Territory to six months’ imprisonment for sleeping at his duty post.

Ribado was arraigned on one count of negligent conduct.

The Prosecutor, Mrs. Florence Auhioboh, told the court that the complainant, Nwankwo Chukwudi of Karmo, Abuja, employed the convict as a security guard in his spare parts shop at Jabi Forest.

“The accused was expected to be on duty at the time the crime was committed, but he deliberately abandoned his duty.

“The accused was sleeping and abandoned his duty post, paving the way for burglars to gain access into the complainant’s spare parts shop,’’ she said.

The prosecutor told the court that the burglars made away with the complainant’s goods valued at N363,000, adding that Chukwudi reported the case at the Utako Police Station on December 8.

Auhioboh said that all efforts by the police to recover the stolen goods were futile.

She said the offence contravened Section 196 of the Penal Code.

The presiding officer, Abubakar Sadiq, therefore, convicted Ribado after he pleaded guilty to the charge and ordered him to pay N363,000 as restitution to the complainant.

Sadiq, who did not give the convict an option of fine, warned him against committing crimes after his prison term.