NAN-H-11
Sentence
By Amen Gajira
Minna, Oct. 12, 2017 (NAN) A Minna Magistrates’ Court on Thursday sentenced two farmers, Tanko Umaru and Mamman Aliyu, to six months imprisonment each for cheating.
Magistrate Abdullahi Usman sentenced the farmers, who
were arraigned on a four-count charge of breach of trust, cheating, resisting of arrest and assault.
The magistrate, however, gave each of the farmers an option of N25, 000 fine and ordered them to pay N400, 000 as compensation to their victim.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Aliyu had pleaded guilty to all the counts while Umaru denied counts three and four and pleaded guilty to counts one and two.
The prosecutor, Cpl. Hussaini Paiko, had told the court that Aliyu and Umaru sold a plot of land to Mr Suleiman Nasiru of Sabon Gari for N150,000 after selling the same plot to another person.
According to him, Nasiru had already spent N47, 000 on laying a building foundation on the plot before he discovered that the duo sold the same piece of land to another person.
Paiko said that Aliyu and Umaru failed to return Nasiru money.
The prosecutor added that they resisted police arrest and assaulted policemen, injuring one of them on the right leg.
He said that the offences contravened Sections 312, 322, 172 and 265 of the Penal Code.
The case has been adjourned to Oct. 30 for Umaru’s trial for counts three and four.(NAN)
AMEN/IGO
(Edited by Ijeoma Popoola)