11th May, 2017
A Grade 1 Area Court, Karmo, Abuja, on Thursday, sentenced a man, Mustapha Ibrahim, 20, to one-month imprisonment for criminal force, assault and mischief.
The presiding judge, Alhaji Abubakar Sadiq, however, gave him an option of fine to pay N5,000.
Sadiq advises Ibrahim, a resident of Angwan Hausawa, Karmo area of Abuja, to learn how to control himself.
Ibrahim, who had earlier pleaded guilty to the charge, prayed the court to temper justice with mercy, saying that he was in a bad mood that day.
Earlier, the Police Prosecutor, Zannah Dalhatu, told the court that one Mohammed Ibrahim, of the same address with the convict, reported the matter to Karmo Police Station on May 3.
Dalhatu said that the convict went to buy one ‘indomi’ in the complainant’s shop, he met people there but insisted the seller attended to him first, but he was advised to buy the product somewhere else.
He subsequently got furious and slapped the complainant and still went home to get his knife, and on coming back, the shop was locked, then, he decided to destroy the shop.
During the police investigation into the matter, he confessed to the crime and the offence.
The offence is punishable under Sections 265 and 327 of the Penal Code.