A court sitting 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.
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.