CEOAFRICA gathered that a Chief Magistrates Court in Minna, Wednesday sentenced one Mr. Abubakar Abdullahi to 12 strokes of the cane after pleading guilty to a charge of stealing a hen.
According to source, the police prosecutor, Sgt. Gunduma Ibrahim, told the court that police men on patrol at Mobile Roundabout, Minna, had arrested the offender with the chicken suspected to be stolen on 2nd of November.
Ibrahim said the convict could not give a satisfactory account of how he got the bird, said to be valued at N1,500. He said the offence was contrary to the Penal Code of Niger.
When the charge was read to the convict, he pleaded guilty and begged the court for leniency and Magistrate Hassan Mohammed gave the accused an option of N5,000 fine.
