Four Northerners, Shehu Adamu, Yusuf A
Adsamu, Aliyu Dalhatu and Abdulamalik Tanko
have been arrested by the state Sharia
Commission and have been charged with the
alleged offence of same-sex. The Sharia court
judge sentenced four out of the seven
homosexual suspects to 15storkes of the cane
and ordered them to pay a fine of N20,000 each,
Nigerian Eye reports.
The presiding Judge said after the sentence of
the four, there will be a further hearing on the
matter of the three other suspects namely
Ibrahim Marafa, Aminu Ibrahim Sadik Usman
Sabo and Hazif Abubakar. He explained that the
trial was being done from public glare because of
security reasons.
Explaining the reason behind the sentences
meted to the four, the judge explained that the
judgement was given on the basis that the
suspects were not caught in the actual
commission of the offence.
He said that although Aliyu Dalhatu and
Abdullahi Tanko for instance admitted that they
engaged in the act four years ago, they have
repented and had not engaged in it before their
arrest by the Hisbah Commission based on the
rumour that they had done it.
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