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, 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.
Source: NAN