Homosexuality: Bauchi Shari’ah Court sentences three to death by stoning
By : Rauf Oyewole, Bauchi
Date:
2 July 2022 4:40am WAT
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This undated photo handout on May 7, 2022 by the Italian Culture Ministry shows a side view from the east of an excavation sector with two torsos of statues of "Cavalupo-type boxers" at the Mont'e Prama archeological site in Cabras, western central Sardinia. - Archeologists in Sardinia have unearthed the torsos of two more limestone statues of boxers within the Iron Age necropolis of Mont'e Prama, Italy's culture ministry said on May 7, 2022. (Photo by Handout / ITALIAN MINISTRY OF CULTURE / AFP)
This undated photo handout on May 7, 2022 by the Italian Culture Ministry shows a side view from the east of an excavation sector with two torsos of statues of "Cavalupo-type boxers" at the Mont'e Prama archeological site in Cabras, western central Sardinia. - Archeologists in Sardinia have unearthed the torsos of two more limestone statues of boxers within the Iron Age necropolis of Mont'e Prama, Italy's culture ministry said on May 7, 2022. (Photo by Handout / ITALIAN MINISTRY OF CULTURE / AFP)
FILE PHOTO: The judge’s gavel is seen in court room PHOTO: REUTERS/Chip East/File Photo A Sharia Court in Ningi Local Government Area (LGA) of Bauchi State has sentenced three men to death by stoning over homosexuality.
While delivering the judgement after hearing the statements by witnesses and admittance of guilt by the three accused persons, the trial Judge, Munka’ilu Sabo Ningi, sentenced them to death by stoning.
The convicts include Abdullahi Abubakar Beti (30); Kamilu Ya’u (20) and Malam Haruna (70) years.
They were convicted based on provision 134 of Bauchi State Penal Law of 2001 as well as the provisions of Fiquhussunah Jizu’i number 2 on page 362.
The case against them started in mid-June, when members of the Hisbah Vanguard operating in Ningi LGA through Adamu Dan Kafi, prosecuted the three offenders before the Sharia court.
The Hisbah Vanguard informed the court that they were arrested for committing the offense of homosexuality at Gwada village in Ningi LGA.
