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Gwagwalada Court docket Jails Two Lovers for Adultery
A Gwagwalada Magistrates’ Court docket, Abuja, has sentenced two lovers, Mohammed Nazifi (30) and Bilkisu Ibrahim (25), to a few months imprisonment every after they have been discovered responsible of adultery.
The police charged the duo with a one-count cost of adultery, to which they each pleaded responsible.
How They Have been Caught
The prosecutor, Dabo Yakubu, instructed the court docket that the case was reported by Dayabe Abdullahi of Chibiri village, Kuje, Abuja, on the Space Command, Gwagwalada, on January 16.
Yakubu acknowledged that the accused conspired and engaged in sexual activity, an act they each confessed to of their statements.
The offence contravenes Sections 387 and 388 of the Penal Code, which criminalize extra-marital affairs beneath customary legislation.
In line with the legislation:
“If a person or lady has sexual activity with anybody apart from their partner, they’re responsible of adultery and shall be punished with imprisonment for as much as two years, a wonderful, or each.”
Plea for Leniency
When the cost was learn, each Nazifi and Ibrahim pleaded for mercy:
Nazifi mentioned he was a married man with little kids to take care of.
Ibrahim revealed she had a three-year-old baby and an aged mom relying on her.
Court docket’s Verdict
The presiding Justice of the Peace, Olatunji Oladunmoye, had earlier remanded the convicts to offer a witness to vouch for his or her good character.
Since they didn’t current any, he sentenced them to a few months in jail every, with an choice of N25,000 wonderful.
The Justice of the Peace emphasised that the punishment was not meant to destroy their lives however to reform them and function a warning to others.
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