{"id":70928,"date":"2025-07-18T06:04:28","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T06:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=70928"},"modified":"2025-07-18T06:04:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T06:04:28","slug":"court-orders-artisan-to-sweep-abuja-market-for-two-weeks-over-bicycle-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/18\/court-orders-artisan-to-sweep-abuja-market-for-two-weeks-over-bicycle-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Orders Artisan to Sweep Abuja Market for Two Weeks Over Bicycle Theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Magistrates\u2019 Court sitting in Gwagwalada, Federal Capital Territory (FCT), on Thursday sentenced a 20-year-old artisan, Suleman Ahmed, to sweep the Gwagwalada International Market for two weeks after he was found guilty of stealing two bicycles worth N70,000.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmed, a resident of Dukpa village in Gwagwalada, was convicted on charges of criminal trespass and theft.<\/p>\n<p>He pleaded guilty to the offence and begged the court for leniency, promising not to repeat the act.<\/p>\n<p>Magistrate Olatunji Oladunmoye, in his ruling, ordered that Ahmed clean the Gwagwalada market daily from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. under the supervision of a correctional officer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu A Magistrates\u2019 Court sitting in Gwagwalada, Federal Capital Territory (FCT), on Thursday sentenced a 20-year-old artisan, Suleman Ahmed, to sweep the Gwagwalada International Market for two weeks after he was found guilty of stealing two bicycles worth N70,000. Ahmed, a resident of Dukpa village in Gwagwalada, was convicted on charges of criminal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":70929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-70928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70930,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70928\/revisions\/70930"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}