An Upper Area court in Zuba, FCT, yesterday sentenced two women, Ms Binta Mamman and Ms Safiya Aliyu, to five months imprisonment for slapping a police man. The women were also been charged with using abusive language and constituting public nuisance.
The women pleaded guilty to the charges after which the presiding judge, Mallam Aminu Sa’ad, handed down the five-month prison sentence.
Mallam Sa’ad ruled that on the first count of criminal force and assault, the convicts shall serve a jail term of one month each without an option of fine. He, however, gave them an option of N20, 000 fine each for the offences of using abusive language and public nuisance, saying that the terms would run consecutively.
The prosecutor, Cpl. Momoh Ibrahim, had told the court that the convicts were arrested on 14 June 2014, for slapping and using insulting language on Cpl. Abraham Omageni of Deidei police station.
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