Upper Sharia court in
Bauchi has sentenced a 30-year-old man, Umar Mohammed Kandahar to death by
stoning, for impregnating his younger sister.
The court records, made
available to journalists on Wednesday in Bauchi , showed that Umar was
arraigned before Upper Sharia Court Unguwar Jaki, by the Bauchi State Shari’ah
Commission, where he was accused of impregnating his younger sister from
the same father.
Counsel to the Shariah
Commission, Barrister Dayyabu Ayuba, told the court that the suspect is married
with three wives, but forcefully had sex with his younger sister.
According to Ayuba, the younger
sister was brought to his house by their father to help take her to school, but
instead, he forced her and had sexual intercourse with her, when she was 16
years old. The act resulted in pregnancy and she has already delivered a baby,
contrary to section 136(1) of the Bauchi State Penal code law 2001.
When asked by the presiding
Shariah court judge, the accused pleaded guilty, but disagreed that he forced
her to have sexual intercourse; instead he maintained that she accepted to have
a sex with him. The Shariah Court Judge, Musa Barde sentenced him to death by
stoning.
Meanwhile, the accused, has
filed an appeal against the judgment before the Bauchi State Sharia Court of
Appeal, arguing that he did not agree with the judgment.
Counsel to Umar, Barrister Sadiq
Abubakar on Wednesday, filed a motion before Bauchi State High court number
seven, asking for the bail of the accused, pending the determination of his
appeal by the Sharia Court of appeal.
He told the court that the accused
family suffered because of his detention since 2011 and asked the court to
release him on bail, to ease the sufferings of his family.
The Presiding Judge, Justice
Aliyu Baba Usman, has fixed Monday, November 25, 2013, for mentioning of the
appeal.
(Daily
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