Farmer bags six-month jail term for cutting colleague’s hand
A Chief Magistrates Court in Okitipupa, Ondo State, on Thursday, sentenced a farmer, Abu Abubakar, to six months imprisonment for cutting the hand of one Ibrahim Tukur with cutlass.
The Magistrate, Olarenwaju Adelegan, convicted and sentenced Abubakar without giving him an option of fine.
Mr Adelegan said that the convict, 25, should serve his term at the Okitipupa Correctional Centre.
The convict, whose address was not given, pleaded guilty to the one-count charge of assault.
Earlier, the Police Prosecutor, ASP Zedekiah Orogbemi, told the court that the convict committed the offence on January 30, at 8.00 a.m. at Sabo in Okitipupa, Okitipupa magisterial district.
Mr Orogbemi said that the convict had an altercation with the complainant, which degenerated and the former rushed to grab a machete and brought it down on the latter’s right hand raised to ward off the blow.
The prosecutor said that Tukur sustained severe injuries on the hand and body as a result of the assault.
He said that the offence contravened Section 355 of the Criminal Code, Cap.37, Vol. 1, Laws of Ondo State, 2006.
(NAN)
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