FCT COURT SENTENCE TWO TO SEVEN STROKE OF THE CANE

A Gudu Upper Area Court in the FCT has sentenced Rabiu Sani, 18, and Thompson Gabriel, 23, to seven strokes of cane each for constituting public nuisance.

Masquerade234 gathered the Presiding Judge, Umar Kagarko, handed down the sentence when Sani and Gabriel pleaded guilty to the charge of constituting public nuisance.

Kagarko also said the convicts should avoid the “black spot’’ where they were arrested and warned them to be of good behaviour.

The prosecutor, Sgt. Ambi Ayuba, had told the court that the accused were arrested at a “black spot’’ in Area 1, Garki, Abuja, by a police patrol team from Durumi Divisional Headquarters on July 5. Ayuba explained that “the black spot is a place where notorious criminals gather to snatch handbags and motor-cycles from innocent citizens.