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.