Homosexuals Arraigned In Bauchi Sharia Court

Four Northerners, Shehu Adamu, Yusuf A
Adsamu, Aliyu Dalhatu and Abdulamalik
Tanko have been arrested by the state
Sharia Commission and have been
charged with the alleged offence of
same-sex. The Sharia court judge
sentenced four out of the seven
homosexual suspects to 15storkes of the
cane and ordered them to pay a fine of
N20,000 each, Nigerian Eye reports.
The presiding Judge said after the
sentence of the four, there will be a
further hearing on the matter of the
three other suspects namely Ibrahim
Marafa, Aminu Ibrahim Sadik Usman
Sabo and Hazif Abubakar. He explained
that the trial was being done from public
glare because of security reasons.
Explaining the reason behind the
sentences meted to the four, the judge
explained that the judgement was given
on the basis that the suspects were not
caught in the actual commission of the
offence.
He said that although Aliyu Dalhatu and
Abdullahi Tanko for instance admitted
that they engaged in the act four years
ago, they have repented and had not
engaged in it before their arrest by the
Hisbah Commission based on the rumour
that they had done it.