A Mararaba
Upper Area Court, Nasarawa State, on Thursday sentenced two men- Kabiru Ibrahim
and Yusuf Danjuma, to two months imprisonment each for smoking
cannabis sativa
(a.k.a.Indian hemp).
The judge,
Ibrahim Shekarau, said he convicted the defendants as they admitted committing
the offence.
He, however,
gave the convicts N2, 000 option of fine each, and warned them to desist from
committing crime.
The
convicts, who had no definite addresses, were arraigned on a three-count charge
bordering on conspiracy, constituting public nuisance and making the atmosphere
noxious for human health.
According to vanguard they
admitted to the crime and pleaded for mercy.
The
prosecutor, Cpl. Hamen Donald, had told the court that the convicts committed
the offence on June 16, at about 12.30 p.m.
He said that
a team of police surveillance team, led by Insp. Lawal Usman, attached to `A’
Division, Mararaba Police Station raided a ‘black spot’ at Orange Market.
Donald said
that in the course of the surveillance, the two convicts were arrested while
smoking Indian hemp.
The
prosecutor also said that the offences contravened Sections 97, 192 and 198 of
the Penal Code.
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