ONLY IN NIGERIA! Abuja Court Sends Man To Jail for Roaming About The Street

An Abuja man has been held to account by a judge and sent to prison… for walking down a street!
Kado grade 1 area court in Abuja has sentenced a 27-year-old man,
Sunday Vincent, to three weeks imprisonment for the crime of public
nuisance.
The judge, Alhaji Abubakar Sadiq, however, gave Vincent the option of paying a N3,000 fine and warned him against committing any other crimes in the future.
The convicted man, of no fixed address, was convicted for wandering
around the streets alone and failing to provide a satisfactory
explanation about what he was doing to the arresting police officers.
Earlier, the prosecutor, Zeerah Doglass, told the court that the
convict was arrested by a police patrol team attached to Ademola
Adetokunbo street, Wuse two, Abuja, and taken to Kado Police Station on
January 1.
She said that the offence is punishable under Section 198 of the Nigerian Penal Code.
At present, there is no information on whether the convicted man
was arrested in a state of intoxication, however given the relative
severity of his sentence this was unlikely to have been his first
offence.
It is also unknown whether Sunday had any plans to commit other public nuisances than walking down the street.
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