A Magistrates’ Court sitting in Kano, on Thursday, sentenced a 28-year-old man, Kabiru Aliyu, to seven months imprisonment and 12 strokes of the cane for causing hurt to a woman and her son.
Aliyu, a resident of Gama Quarters, Kano, was convicted on two-count charge, bordering on trespass and causing hurt.
The defendant pleaded guilty to the charges.
The Prosecutor, Mr Aminu Dandago, told the court that one Rumanatu Sani, of same address, reported the matter at Gama Police Division, Kano, on June 20.
Dandago said that on the same date, at about 3.00 p.m., the defendant criminally trespassed into the complainant’s house, situated at Gama Quarters, Kano, because she had a misunderstanding with his sister.
“The defendant, in the process, started beating the complainant as a result of which she sustained injury on her lips, while her two-year-old son got injured in his head,” he said.
Dandago said that the offences contravened the provisions of Sections 348 and 246 of the Penal Code.
Magistrate Farouk Ibrahim-Umar then sentenced the defendant to 12 strokes of the cane and seven months, with hard labour, in a correctional centre, without an option of fine.
In a similar case, a 28-year-old man, Abubakar Auwal, on Thursday, appeared before a Kano Magistrates’ Court for allegedly defrauding his employer of N781, 949.
The defendant, of Badawa Quarters, Kano, is standing trial on a two-count charge, bordering on criminal breach of trust and cheating, contrary to Sections 312 and 322 of the Penal Code.
The Magistrate, Farouk Ibrahim-Umar, admitted the defendant to bail in the sum of N300, 000, with two reliable sureties in like sum.
Ibrahim-Umar adjourned the matter till Aug. 9 for further mention.
Earlier, the Prosecutor, Aminu Dandago, had informed the court that one Muhammad Adamu, of Fagge Quarters, Kano, reported the matter at Badawa Police Division, Kano on June 24.
He said that sometime in 2021, the complainant entrusted the defendant with the sum of N1.8 million and opened a POS business at Badawa Quarters, Kano.
“In the process, the defendant converted the sum of N781, 949 out of N1.8 million to his own personal use,” Dandago said.
Adamu, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges preferred against him.
