A Bauchi State High Court number 9 has sentenced one person Usman Abdullahi to death by hanging for the killing of Zaidu Adamu Kofar Dumi over a handset charger.
In his judgement the presiding judge, Justice Sa’ad Muhammad Sambuwal, found the accused person guilty of causing grievious and culpable homicide contrary to sections 239 and 221 of the Penal Code.
Prosecution counsel from the State Ministry of Justice Barrister Abubakar Ahmed Kobi infomed the court that one Adamu Mohammed Kofar Dumi reported at Police A Division that on 12th May 2021 the defendant had a misunderstanding with his son Zaidu Adamu and his friend called Ziya’u Abdulhadi over a handset charger where the defendant used knife and stabbed Zaidu in different parts of his body which caused grievious hurt, Zaidu was rushed to the Specialist Hospital Bauchi, where a Medical Doctor certified him death.
The trial of the accused persons started on 30th December, 2021, and the prosecution counsel charged the defendant on two counts of causing grievous hurt and homicide, where he caused death with knife, when he stabbed him with a knife in his stomach, neck and several parts of his body.
Counsel to the defendant Barrister Naziru Umar presented two witnesses and asked for leniency.
After all the two parties closed their submissions and final written address, Justice Sambuwal in his judgement said that “I hereby convict Usman Sa’ad for the offense of culpable homicide punishable with death which you will be hanged by the neck till you die, as in section 221 of the Penal code.
“For the grievous hurt you are sentenced to five years in the correctional service as on section 239 of the Penal code”
