Judiciary
AN Oredo Magistrates’ Court in Benin on Monday sentenced a 46-year-old clergyman, Samuel Ezomo, to two months in prison for assaulting two men.
Chief Magistrate Esohe Ighodan sentenced Ezomo, after he pleaded guilty to assault and begged the court for leniency.
Ighodan, however, gave the convict an option to pay a fine of N10,000.
Earlier, the prosecutor, Insp Sunday Lucky, said that the offence was committed on Aug. 7, 2018 at Iguma St. by Universal Road, Benin in Egor Magisterial District.
Lucky said that the convict assaulted Kingsley Aghedo and Obulor Prince.
The prosecutor said the offence contravened the provisions of sections 351 and 355 of the Criminal Code Cap. 48 Vol. 11, Laws of the defunct Bendel State of Nigeria, 1976, now applicable in Edo. (NAN)
– Nov. 4, 2019 @ 15:25 GMT |
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