Wednesday, 6 November 2013

COURT SENTENCES MAN TO 12 STROKES OF THE CANE FOR STEALING FOWL IN NIGER STATE



A Minna Chief Magistrates’ Court has sentenced one Abubakar Abdullahi to 12 strokes of the cane for pleading guilty to stealing a fowl.

Magistrate Hassan Mohammed, however gave the accused an option of five thousand naira fine.
The police prosecutor, Sergeant Gunduma Ibrahim, told the convict was arrested on the second of this month, at Mobile Roundabout, Minna, Niger State, with a fowl suspected to have been stolen, and could not give a satisfactory account of how he got the animal, valued at N1,500.
When the charge was read to the convict, he pleaded guilty and pleaded for leniency.

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