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A Karu Grade 1 Area Court, Abuja, on Thursday sentenced three men to three months’ imprisonment each for constituting public nuisance.

The Judge, Mr Sani Mohammed, sentenced Christopher Sunday, 33,  Dauda Mohammed and Joseph Maduchukwu, both aged 39, following their guilty plea to a count charge of public nuisance.

The judge, however, gave them an option of  N4,000 each.

The trio had pleaded for leniency.

According to the prosecutor, Mr Vincent Osuji,  a team of policemen attached to the Karu Police Station and led by ASP Moses Maku arrested the convicts at midnight on Oct. 11, during a raid of black spots  in Karu.

Osuji submitted that  the convicts, who have different residential addresses, could not give satisfactory accounts of themselves.

The prosecutor noted that  the offence contravened Section 198 of the Penal Code.