Woman bags 3 months imprisonment for assaulting police officer

A Karmo Grade 1 Area Court, Abuja, on Friday
sentenced a 27-year-old woman, Cynthia Ajiji to
three months imprisonment for assaulting a police
office.
The convict was arraigned on charges bordering on
public nuisance, mischief and assaulting a police
officer.
The judge, Alhaji Abubakar Sadiq, however, gave
Ajiji an option to pay N15, 000 fine and warned her
to desist from committing crimes.
Sadiq also ordered her to pay N4,000 compensation
to the nominal complainant.
Earlier, the prosecutor, Zannah Dalhatu, told the
court that a team of police men led by Sp. Adamu
Muktar, attached to Karmo Division, on Jan. 20,
while on patrol arrested the convict and girls
presumed to be sex workers.
He said that when one Asp. Okafor Austine was
addressing and questioning the girls, Cynthia was
arrogant and assaulted him and even tore his shirt
inside the police station.
The prosecutor also put the value of the shirt at
N8,000 and the offences punishable under Sections

183, 267 and 327 of the Penal Code