Farmer docked over alleged theft of 4 bags of fertilizer<\/p>\n
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By Patience Yakubu<\/p>\n
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Kaduna<\/strong><\/p>\n A farmer, Francis Vincent, 40, on Thursday, appeared before a Kaduna Magistrates\u2019 Court over alleged theft of four bags of fertilizer.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The defendant, a resident of Trikania in Kaduna, is charged with conspiracy and stealing, to which he pleaded not guilty.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Prosecutor, Insp Chidi Leo, told the court that the defendant committed the offences on July 12, at Kakuri in Kaduna.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Leo said that the defendant, and one other at large, burgled the shop of Moses Baba and stole four bags of fertilizer, the value yet to be ascertained.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n He said that the defendant was caught when loading the stolen fertilizer in a truck while his accomplice escaped with two bags of fertilizer.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The prosecutor said that the offences contravened the Kaduna State Penal Code, 2017.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Magistrate, Mr Ibrahim Emmanuel granted the defendant bail in the sum of N200,000 with one surety in like sum.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n He said that the surety must present evidence of tax payment to the Kaduna State Government and must be resident within the jurisdiction of the court.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Emmanuel adjourned the case until Aug. 24, for hearing.\u00a0 (www.primerisenews.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A farmer, Francis Vincent, 40, on Thursday, appeared before a Kaduna Magistrates\u2019 Court over alleged theft of four bags of fertilizer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[72],"tags":[153,154,150],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-judiciary","tag-farmer","tag-fertilizer","tag-theft"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primerisenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-07-09-at-12.07.50.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primerisenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primerisenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primerisenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primerisenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primerisenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/primerisenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213,"href":"https:\/\/primerisenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions\/213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primerisenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primerisenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primerisenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primerisenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}