A 34-year-old Chinese businessman, Arvin Wu, Wednesday, was sentenced to three months imprisonment for receiving stolen railway sleepers belonging to the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC).

A panel of two magistrates, Ghazali Adam and Hyacinth Dolnaan of the Central Area Court sitting in Kasuwan Nama in Jos, sentenced Arvin after he pleaded guilty to the offence.

The Magistrates, however, gave him an option to pay a fine of N50,000.

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) said that the stolen property were recovered from Arwin after he was arrested on Dec. 27, 2020.

The offence, the NSCDC said, contravenes the provisions of Section 302 of Plateau Penal Code Law, and Section 3(1) (e) (i ) (f) of the NSCDC.