The decision of an upper Shari’ah court sitting in Tudun Wada, Zaria, to sentence three rapists to one year imprisonment with an option of N7,000 fine has generated controversy and anxiety in the ancient city.

The judge of the court, Malam Iliyasu Muhammad Umar, during the ruling said the prosecution led by Sergeant Adamu Yahaya, convinced the court, therefore the three suspects will serve one year jail term or pay N7,000 fine with 20 strokes of the cane.

While presenting his case at the court, Prosecutor Yahaya said the offence committed by the suspects contravenes sections 222 and 117 of the Penal Code. According to investigation, the trio, Hassan Suleiman, Ibrahim Usman and Adamu Audu, lured their victims of between nine and ten years while on the way to school, while Hassan Suleiman and Ibrahim Usman used to intercept the 9-year-old girl on her way to school and rape her. Adamu Audu’s victim is the 10-year-old girl.

The two girls are both attending an LEA Primary School in the Tudun Jukun area of Zaria. According to the officials of a voluntary community association, Gyara Kayanka, who arrested the suspects, the rape of the victims had been going on for many months before the suspects met their waterloo.

Many residents of Zaria and human rights activists have condemned the verdict of the judge, especially that he did not support his decision with any provision of Islamic jurisprudence, as Shari’ah is the status of the court. Kaduna State Commissioner for Women Affairs, Hafsat Mohammed Baba, when contacted said the new law being used in the state says thus: “Section 31; (1) No person shall have sexual intercourse with a child.
(2) A person who contravenes the provision of subsection (1) of this section commits an offence of rape and is liable on conviction to imprisonment for life.
(3) Where a person is charged with an offence under this section, it is immaterial that: “(a) the offender believed the person to be of or above the age of eighteen years or age of puberty; or (b) the sexual intercourse was with the consent of the child.
(4) “Notwithstanding any enactment or rules of law to the contrary, reliable medical, scientific or other physical electronic evidence of rape shall be sufficient to secure a conviction under this section; consequently, the prosecution and the court may dispense with the oral testimony of a parent or of the child victim.”

She said her ministry would follow up the case to ensure justice is served, saying that the verdict of the court would only encourage rapists. The District Head of Tudun Jukun, Zaria, Alhaji Jibrin Yakubu, urged parents to always monitor the movement of their wards.


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“School authorities should also interrogate those pupils that report late to school. This can assist in tracing this type of attitude and those engage in it can be easily exposed,” Alhaji Yakubu said. The Prosecutor, Sergeant Yahaya, said the charges prepared against the suspects were on “procration of a minor” not rape, saying that there is a difference between the two.

However, Hajiya Hafsa had debunked the position of the prosecutor, saying that the two are the same, and the law has provided for stiffer punishment.

https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/controversy-trails-shariah-courts-n7000-fine-on-rapists.html

It is their children,
their men,
their legal system.


So, they shouldn't complain.



The first accused is even a leper, kuturu.
see the evidence on his face and nose..

Tufiakwa!!

Islam thinks it has solution, but when you allow it to operate it brings confusion and more problem+

The truth is that sexual offences are not a big deal in the North.

Creating soft landing for their mallas who rape little girls in islamia

Creating soft landing for their mallas who rape little girls in islamia.....spits

So sorry for northern women
To them this world belongs to men

Hausa mata.Why not cut their legs

Leave Nigeria if you can , you and your children will thank me later!!!!

Note: no place like home is the greatest lie ever told, don't forget, Earth is your home, you can always wave the Nigerian flag from other parts of the planet,

I will always prefer a system that works, than a system designed to promote corruption.

Don't be deceived by other Nigerians saying you will suffer Racism, I mean the same people even the website Nairaland promotes Tribalism!!!

Please spend you lifetime experiencing what good governance really is, you will only live once!!!


If you ever think Nigeria will get better by just praying on hope, you are more likely to be struck by lightning

Why should shariah court not recommend stoning to death for those pedophile but will pronuonce same on a lady that commits fornication.


Islam is one big contradiction

Imagine the nonsense happening in a shariah court? That court is just useless

The first man look like zombie the man suppose dey act horror film

Their problem

(3) Where a person is charged with an offence
under this section, it is immaterial that: “(a) the
offender believed the person to be of or above
the age of eighteen years or age of puberty; or
(b) the sexual intercourse was with the consent
of the child."


How on earth can a child...say 5-9 years old...give consent for sexual intetcourse and it is morally acceptable


Why do i happen to be in the same country with these category of human beings ??

His sentiment and bias leads him to passed what wasn't right.

CanineOfJackal:
Why should shariah court not recommend stoning to death for those pedophile but will pronuonce same on a lady that commits fornication.


Islam is one big contradiction

Imagine fa. It pays to rape a woman than to rape a goat most times

BlackfireX:
Islam thinks it has solution, but when you allow it to operate it brings confusion and more problem+

It's a hypocritical and shitty one they practice.
How many big,muslim men in the North in Nigeria have been taken to a Sharia court?None.
It's only the poor,almajiris and physically challenged that are deemed fit to go before a Sharia court,to have their limbs amputated.
Worse they don't find anything so wrong in rapes,sodomy and child marriages.
St upid people claiming holy when they are the most debased and hypocritical lying,corrupt lots around

Tripitaka:
The truth is that sexual offences are not a big deal in the North.

U normal at all

BlackfireX:
Islam thinks it has solution, but when you allow it to operate it brings confusion and more problem+

You're absolutely right!!

Hypocrisy! That's d problem, When a sharia court pronounce a harsher punishment of flogging, death penalty or amputation , the same set of idiotic critics will shout 2 d high heaven , forming human right activism, now this liniency they are still crying foul. Smh
If u think d decision of Syria court is flawed, kindly seek redress in Sharia court of Appeal.

this religion likes sex so much to the extent that they protect rapists.
sex with virgins is also a reward for killing infidels and doing suicide bombings.
thats why the world is not safe

No b news Nah. We dy see am everyday. Hausa man go board public transport and if opposite sex sidon near am na to release before the next bus stop. These set of people na the problem way this country get.

delishpot:


Imagine fa. It pays to rape a woman than to rape a goat most times

Islam 101


Ishilove I just saw your mention

Why are we keeping the shariah system to begin with?

Mon

What a nonsensical judgement 7000 keni this judge suppose be judge too

The judge must also be a rapist. Just imagine the stupid judgement.

People are always sympathetic to their sins.

The parents of those kids must be really poor or illiterates for this to happen. This kind of judgement cannot befall those bastards if the parents of the kids were prominent.

Chai!!! Poverty is a curse indeed.

Can any good thing come out of this crop of people...

You don't get it. Sha means cheap, ria means rape = cheap rape. They should enjoy the cheap rape galore.