Reports reaching the desk of Africa Today News, New York has it that Magistrate Court in Kano State has ordered that 20 lashes each be unleashed on two Kano State-based standup comedians whose name was given as Mubarak Isa Muhammad and Nazifi Muhammad Bala for defaming the character of Kano State governor, Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje on their Tiktok accounts.
In his ruling on the matter, Magistrate Aminu Muhammad Gabari also ordered the duo to sweep and wash the toilets on the premises of the Magistrates Court located at No-Man’s-Land area of Kano for a period lasting 30 days.
He further directed that 20 lashes each be administered in the public and also sweeping and washing toilets of Justice Aloma Mukthar Court Complex in No-man’s Land in the Kano metropolis.
Consequently, the trial Magistrate Gabari ordered the convicts to pay a fine of N10,000 each for defaming the character of the Kano State governor. He also ordered them to pay another fine of N10,000 each for inciting public disturbance.
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Similarly, Gabari administered non-custodial terms against the convicts and ordered the convicts to produce a video on social media to tender an apology to Ganduje.
According to the First Information Report, the duo had on their verified Tiktok account defamed the Kano State governor Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje.
Consequently, the prosecutor, Barrister Wada Ahmad Wada, principal state counsel, Kano State Ministry of Justice applied for a summary trial against the duo.
Meanwhile, Ganduje has sent a warning to politicians to desist from using religion to further widen the nation’s diversity.
He said all hunan beings were creations of God, insisting that whatever diversity that exists was intended by God.
He urged the members to organise a befitting inter religious conference in Kano with a view to developing a road map for the management of the nation’s diversity