OVER N200 INDIAN HEMP MAN STABS FRIEND IN ADAMAWA
A matchete wielding young man, Sadiq Safiyanu, has been remanded in prison custody for stabbing his friend while fighting over N200 indian hemp.
The Jimeta Area Court II in Adamawa state ordered the remand of the 19 year old Sadiq along side his friend, Ibrahim Dole, whom he had stabbed while fighting over the weed.
Both of them entered guilty plea to disturbance of public peace, inciting disturbance and causing hurt contrary to sections 79, 80 and 217 of the penal code law.
Sadiq and his 18 year old friend, Ibrahim of Hulere in Yola North LGA, were arraigned before the court on Monday, by Corpral Ismail Mohammed, for the offences.
After the defendants' plea, the Prosecutor, urged the court to adjourn the matter to enable him call a witness for the purpose of corroboration.
Having heard their plea as well as the application filed by the prosecutor, the court presided by Abubakar Balarabe, the 2nd judge, adjourned the case to the 10th January, 2023, for corroboration and summary trial.
NEWS PLATFORM gathered that Sadiq, stabbed Dole in hand on the 10th December, 2022, while fighting over the weed belonging him.
The 1st defendant was said to have sent a boy on errand to buy it for him, and that shortly after he had bought it, the 2nd defendant confiscated it.
But after he was informed about what transpared, Sadiq, who became very angry, picked a matchete and confronted Dole, where both of them engaged in a fight.
Dole was said to have removed the indian hemp from his pocket and showed it to Sadiq where he told him that he does not see a man born of a woman who will collect it from him.
It was Mallam Yahaya, the Ward Head of Hulere and some other persons who intervened and subsequently arrested the defendants and handed them over to the police.
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