Auwah Abubakar Tsanre (23) and Lawwali Musa Tsanre (22), were found guilty by an Upper Sharia Court in Gusau for stealing a cow valued at N130,000, belonging to one Alhaji Bawa Dangande.
A rights activist, Mr Anthony Agboh, told Saturday Tribune in Gusau that the lawyers were contacted by civil organisations in the state in connection with the case.
He said the rights groups believed their conviction was an error.
He stated that though the teenagers were convicted under the sharia law being practiced in the state, “we were told for a judge to pass this kind of judgment, certain criteria need to be made like where the convicts gainfully employed before committing the theft or what engineered them to steal the cow, or whether the owner carelessly leaves the cow without proper protection.”
Similarly, the Christians indigenous group has appealed to the state government to temper justice with mercy.
Speaking through its Public Relations Officer, Mallam Musa Tsafe, the group pleaded that the teenagers be forgiven.
Tsafe charged that the issue of robbery, theft, or any other social vices could be attributed to the failure of government at all levels to cater for their people.
He stressed that if the people had jobs and could afford to sponsor their kids to school and pay electricity bills, all the rampant cases of theft and robbery would be reduced to the bearest level.
Meanwhile, two persons sentenced to amputation by the Higher Shari’ah Court in Nasarawa Mailayi in Birnin Magaji local Government of Zamfara State have filed an appeal less than 48 hours to its execution.
A source told our correspondent that the convicts were seeking to overturn the verdict.
Findings, however, showed that all arrangements had been concluded for the execution of the ruling delivered by the Shari’ah Court judge, Justice Muhammadu Abubakar, in accordance with the provision of Shari’ah.
The state governor, Alhaji Abdul’Aziz Yari Abubakar, had during the 100-day in office celebration, vowed to allow the execution of the judgment if the convicts fail to appeal.
“They are going to be the third and fourth cases of amputation in the history of shari’ah in our state,” the governor said.
Source: Tribune
8 comments:
am i reading correctly? since when did we refer to 22 and 23 year olds as teenagers? or is that only applicable in the north? in any case i wish them well
@meroh. That's what I thought as well.
When will northern Nigeria arrive at the doorpost of civilization? Amputating poor burglars while celebrating rich robbers!
Goodluck to the both of them
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I think the judge who passed this law should be the one to get his hand amputated. Has ne1 passed a motion to amputate the hands he has been using to steal the country's money that he's now passing such a barbaric law on another human being. He should better reconsider the sentence b4 the Hand of God falls on him. Mstchew
It remains amazing as well as disheartening to hear and read these stories about Northern Nigerians still chopping off peoples body parts as punishment and making them a liability for the rest of us in the 21st century.
From what i hear,these amputations are carried out as proper surgeries.Why can't these people divert this monies and energy into more meaningful ventures like free surgeries for other surgical conditions.
Its only in the North that these barbaric happenings occur.Marrying off the girl child at 10,amputation,just to mention a few.And this jokers called Boko Haram say they want implementation of Sharia...May God frustrate and destroy all of them and their plans!
Mr.Abdulazeez, are u telling me that since the inception of Sharia Zamfara, only 3 people steal in the state? I think Yarima, Shinkafi and the present Governor, should all have their hands and even legs amputated. Hypocrites of the highest order. God go punish all of you for using religion to torment innocent ones.
they have to deal with the consequences of choosing to be muslims and abiding to sharia law. It is wrong to amupatate but I am just saying. You chose sharia law so there you go.
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