Commercial driver gets 15 strokes for assaulting police officer

A Chief Magistrates’ Court in Kaduna on Thursday ordered that a 36-year-old driver Mustapha Aminu, be given 15 strokes of the cane for assaulting a police officer on duty.

The convict, who resides in Ungwan Sanusi in Kaduna, was convicted of hitting a police officer Sgt. Adamu Maigari, on the head with a log of wood.

Aminu pleaded guilty to the charge.

The Magistrate, Mr Ibrahim Emmanuel who gave the order, said: “the punishment is to make you understand the gravity of the offence you committed.

“This will also serve as a warning to others that have the mind to commit such crimes.

“I hereby order a court official to give him 15 strokes of the cane”.

Emmanuel warned him to desist from such crimes and face his job so that he will be useful to the society.

Earlier, the prosecutor, Insp Chidi Leo, told the court that on Jan. 29 at about 2p.m. the driver assaulted and injured a police officer while performing his duty.

Leo said the driver drove recklessly on the road and when he was stopped by the officer, he hit him with a log of wood.

He said the offence contravened the provisions of Section 237 of the Penal Code of Kaduna State, 2017.