Two bus conductors jailed three months each for public fighting
An Area Court in Jos, Plateau State on Tuesday sentenced bus conductors; Isah Abubakar and Abdulrazak Salihu, to three months imprisonment each for fighting in public and constituting a nuisance.
The judge, Shawomi Bokkos, sentenced the convicts after they pleaded guilty to the offence.
The judge however gave the convicts an option of N 10,000 fine each or three months imprisonment for disturbing the peace of the public.
Earlier, the police prosecutor, Inspector Monday Dabit, told the court that information was received at the Laranto Police Station that the convicts were engaged in a fight behind the St Auustine Major Seminary.
Mr Dabit said that during a police investigation, the suspects confessed to the crime.
The police prosecutor said that the offence contravened the provisions of Section 83 of the Plateau State Penal Code Law of Northern Nigeria.
(NAN)
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