MINNA — A Kontagora High Court has sentenced a
40-year-old man, Isah Makeri, to a four-year jail term without an option of
fine for raping a nine-year-old girl.
In the case which lasted about six months, Resident
Counsel, Abubakar Suleiman, tendered exhibits and were all upheld by the
presiding judge, Justice Yusuf Tanko Usman.
Before pronouncing his judgment on the convict,
the judge had asked him whether he had a plea to mitigate the sentence but
instead he pleaded guilty to the one-count charge of unlawful intercourse with
the teenager and asked for pardon.
Justice Usman, therefore, convicted him under
Section 283 of the Penal Code.
Source: Vanguard
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