Businessman jailed 1-year for causing hurt

Imprisonment

By Amen Gajira

Kafanchan (Kaduna) March 18, 2020 (NAN) A Chief Magistrates’ Court in Kafanchan, Kaduna State, on Wednesday sentenced a 36-year-old business man, Obadiah Bako,   to one year in Correctional Centre facility for causing bodily harm.

Bako was charged with act of causing grievous bodily harm, contrary to Section 216 of the Kaduna State Penal Code Law.

The Police Prosecutor, Insp. Esther Bishen, had earlier told the court that one Lucius Adamu reported the matter at the Divisional Police Station, Kaura on March 14.

Bishen said the complainant alleged that he had visited one Jummai Dauda in her house at Manchok when the accused person took a log of wood and hit him on the head without any provocation.

According to the prosecutor,  the victim who suffered a deep cut on the head  fainted instantly and was rushed to a Primary Health Care facility for medical attention.

When the charge was read to the accused person, he pleaded guilty and begged for leniency.

The prosecutor, thereafter, prayed the court for summary trial under section 125 (8) of the Administration of Criminal Justice Law, 2017.

In his ruling, the Trial Judge, Magistrate Abdulaziz Ibrahim, sentenced the accused to  one year in a custodial  facility with an option of N40, 000 fine.

Ibrahim also ordered the convict to pay N10, 000 cost to the complainant as compensation for medical treatment. (NAN)

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edited by Emmanuel Nwoye/Rabiu Sani Ali