Posted on: 10:46 Thu, 19 Jun 2014



An Upper Area court in Zuba, FCT, on Wednesday sentenced
two women – Binta Mamman, 35, and Safiya Aliyu, 19, both of
Deidei, Abuja, to five months imprisonment for slapping a
police man.

The women had also been charged with using abusive language and public nuisance.
Malam Aminu Sa’ad, the presiding judge, handed down the
sentence after the women pleaded guilty to the three-count
charge of criminal force and assault, use of abusive language
and public nuisance.

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. Continue...
He, however, gave them an option of N20,000 fine each for
the other two counts charge including the use of abusive
language and public nuisance, and declared the terms would
run consecutively.

Earlier, the prosecutor, Cpl. Momoh Ibrahim, had told the
court that on June 14, 2014, the convicts were arrested for
using insulting language on the person of a police officer, the prosecutor, Cpl. Momoh Ibrahim, had told the court that on June 14, 2014, the convicts were arrested for using insulting language on the person of a police officer, one
Cpl. Abraham Omageni of Deidei police station.

Ibrahim said the convicts also slapped Omageni.
The prosecutor told the court that their offences
contravened the provisions of the Penal Code.