2 store keepers jailed 24 years for stealing mosquito nets
BY AUSTIN OGWUDA ASABA— AN Asaba Chief Magistrate’s Court has sentenced head storekeeper attached to Millennium Development Goals, MDGs, office Asaba and his assistant to 24 years imprisonment for stealing treated mosquito nets. The nets were procured by the Federal Government for six states in the South-South geo-political zone and kept in the warehouse. Jailed were Mr. Mike Okonkwo, Head of Store, MDGs office, Asaba and Mrs. Finecountry Tracy, his assistant. Incidentally, the businessman, who purchased the nets from the storekeepers, Ugwu Joseph, jumped bail during trial and was still at large when the judgment was delivered, Monday. Delivering judgment, Chief Magistrate S. C. Ehikwe sentenced the storekeeper and his assistant to three years imprisonment with hard labour on each of the four counts for which they were found guilty. Sentences are, however, to run concurrently. The magistrate also ordered that: “The police is urged to intensify their efforts to get Ugwu Ugochukwu arres...