Three Bag Life imprisonment For Gang-ra××ng Hearing Impaired Kebbi House Wife

By Suleiman Anyalewechi

For gang ra××ng an 18-year old hearing impaired house  wife in her matrimonial home, three men are to spend the rest of their lives in jail.

Bashar Dan-Inno, Amiru Umar, and Aliyu Umar were on Tuesday, July 23, 2024, handed down  life imprisonment terms by Justice Shamsudeen Jafar of a Kebbi state High Court..

Earlier, the prosecution Counsel, Farida Muhammad, had told the Court that the  three convicts committed the act in Wararin Zaromawa  Village in Gwandu Local Council of Kebbi State .

He submitted that the convicts broke into the  victim’s matrimonial home while she was deeply asleep, and forcefully took advantage of  her carnally.

“They had choked her with thick pieces of clothes as well as tied her two hands with rope before having carnal knowledge of her one after the other”, the prosecution stated .

He, therefore, prayed the Court ,to sentence the convicts, in line with the provisions of sections 259 and 60 of the Kebbi State Penal Code law of 2021.

Justice Jafar in his ruling found the defendants guilty of criminal conspiracy and raxe.

He noted that the prosecution counsel had established beyond any doubt that the defendants forcefully had carnal knowledge of the victim .

” Iam of the firm view that all the defendants conspired in perpetrating the act .The defendants conspired and raxed the  victim, who is an 18-year old deaf and dump, and also married woman, at her husband’s residence.

“All the ingredients needed to establish a criminal conspiracy to commit rape were established beyond reasonable doubt by the prosecution.

“The court has no option than to act upon the evidence before it .

“Similarly, the court holds the view that it has found the first ,second ,and third defendants guilty as charged. You are hereby convicted as charged.

“Having found you guilty of the charge, you, Aminu Sani, Aliyu Umar and Bashar Dan-Inno, are hereby sentenced to life imprisonment for finding all of you guilty under Section 259 and section 60 of Kebbi state Penal Code Law 2021” Justice Jafar ruled

“The prosecution had called three key witness, as well as tendered six exhibits in both English and Hausa languages to prove the case against the defendants.

The Defence Counsel, Ahmed Abubakar Fingila  had prayed the court to temper justice with mercy.

However Justice Jafar described the offence as  heinous and reprehensible, as the defendants took advantage of the victim’s vulnerability.