Nigerian phone thief sentenced to carrying buckets of water

A 28-year-old Nigerian man has received a strange punishment for stealing a phone, reports the local Punch news site.

The judge in Lagos state sentenced the thief to carry two buckets of water up and down a staircase 100 times, the site says.

It adds that the phone was worth 6,000 naira ($20; £15).

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