Woman serving 18 months for pot theft is pardoned by the Adamawa correctional committee

A committee created to relieve prison overcrowding has pardoned Ramatu Adamu, a young woman from Adamawa State who was serving an 18-month term for stealing a pot and a wrapper.

The Adamawa Jail Delivery Committee released Ramatu on Thursday after he was found guilty of “theft in a dwelling house.”

For stealing the pot, wrapper and cooler, she was found guilty last month on August 11 and given a one and a half year term by the Chief Magistrate Court in Numan.

When the committee visited the Numan Security Custodial Centre, she was there completing her sentence.

The defendant acknowledged committing the crime for which she was found guilty when she testified before the committee led by Chief Judge Justice Hapsat Abdulrahaman.

She claimed to have taken the items after leaving her home in Shelleng to visit her sister in Numan.

In response to her plea, the Jail Recovery Committee released her with a warning against committing any other crimes.

Additionally, the top judge granted her a financial present of N10,000 so she could keep up her food-selling business.