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Daily Post Nigeria Published As Nigeria battles to curb the menace of sale and consumption of hard drugs, two men in Kano will only get cane lashes. On Tuesday, a Kano Magistrates’ Court sentenced Mohammad Sani, 24, and Saddam Ali, 27, to 12 strokes of the cane each for dealing in illicit drugs. The defendants were tried for being in possession of Indian hemp and an intoxicant, NAN reports. The Magistrate, Farouk Ibrahim, convicted them after they pleaded guilty. The prosecutor, Muhammad Bichi, had told the court that Sani and Ali committed the offence on December 21 at 9pm at Plaza, Fagge Local Government Area. ....
Daily Post Nigeria Published NAN reports that the defendants are Zunnuraini Adamu, 24, Hashim Lawal, 25, and Muhammad Lawal, 19. They were convicted on a two-count charge of possessing dangerous weapons and causing hurt. The Judge, Magistrate Farouk Ibrahim, after the defendants pleaded guilty, sentenced them to nine months each with hard labour in the correctional centre. They are also to get 12 strokes of the cane each. Magistrate Ibrahim, however, did not give an option of fine to the convicts. Earlier, the Prosecution, Mr Muhammad Bichi told the court that the defendants committed the offence on Dec. 22 at Ibramin Bello Road, Kano. He alleged that on the same date at about 11.45 pm, a team of policemen, attached to Fagge Police Division Kano, while on patrol arrested the defendants at IBB Road for being in possession of sharp knives. ....
Ibrahim ordered that they be given 12 strokes of cane each after they pleaded for leniency. Earlier, the Prosecutor, Mr Muhammad Bichi, told the court that the defendants committed the offence on Dec. 21 at 9 p.m. at Plaza, Fagge Local Government Area of Kano State. Bichi said a team of police officers attached to Fagge Division arrested the defendants with 10 sachets of Rohypnol, suspected hard drug, one wrap of Indian hemp and a bottle of liquid substance suspected to be intoxicant. He said that the offence contravened Section 403 of the Penal Code. (NAN) ....
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