Homos*xuals 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-s*x. The Sharia court judge
sentenced four out of the seven homos*xual 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.