A Dutse Grade I Area Court, Abuja, on Thursday, sentenced a 67-year-old farmer, Samson Aku, to three months imprisonment for maiming and killing a herdsman’s cows which strayed into his farm.

The presiding officer, Suleiman Mohammed, sentenced Aku after finding the convict guilty of the charges filed against him.

The act, according to the judge, is not justifiable.

He said: “It is evident that the defendant took laws into his hands, which shouldn’t be, and has failed to convince the court in his defence the reason for his actions.

“Therefore, this court, having found you guilty of the charges brought against you, hereby sentences you to three months in a correctional facility, while in consideration of your age.”

Mohammed, however, gave the convict an option of N25,000 fine.

The convict, a resident of Friendship Street, SCC road in Bwari, was arraigned for causing mischief by killing or maiming an animal.

He pleaded not guilty to the charges.

The police prosecutor, Mrs. Idowu Ojo, told the court that on June 6, one Dauda Usman, a Fulani herdsman and resident of Zuma area of Bwari, reported the matter at the Bwari police station.

Ojo said while the complainant’s cows were grazing in the bush behind Kogo II village in the district, they mistakenly entered the defendant’s farm and ate part of the crops on the field.

The prosecutor said the defendant, however, angrily used a machete to maim six cows, killing four in the process, all valued at N360,000.

She explained the two other cows were quickly slaughtered by the herder to save himself of a total loss, after noticing that the injuries inflicted on the animals were killing them.

Ojo said that during the investigation, the defendant confessed to committing the crime.

According to her, the offence contravened Section 329 of the Penal Code and punishable under the same. (NAN)

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What about his damaged crop? What if the cows destroy is livelihood??

Come o, this nextlevel na jailing things?

kallmemrB:
What about his damaged crop? What if the cows destroy is livelihood??

If he had not taken the law into his hands and like the Fulani man and had promptly reported the incident he would have gotten justice,
The Fulani had more sense and was more civil in this instance.

Is this a joke , or what

Poor farmer. He should have allowed the cows to graze and eat up his crops. Even if he reported to the police, nothing would have come out of it. I believe that's the reason he took the law into his hands. Life has always been against the poor. I have seen these farmers in Abuja lamenting over these cows eating up their sweat . They say that's the main reason food especially yams are scarce these days

Killing the cows because they invaded his farm and destroyed his farm crops isn't right. The cow u killed is someone means of livelihood. It is the herdsmen u should have blamed and arrested and not the cow. He should have known cows are first class citizens.

Animals no get right here
Am fed up of naija

I think its high time Nigerians hear the Fulani herdsmen part of these killings.
This fulani man is lucky, unlike his brothers in Benue, who loss cattle, have their wives and daughters raped by community youths....
But nobody wants to hear their part of the story.
PS: Am from Benue state and I have lost people to herdsmen clash but I know the true story, not the stories making the Fulani man looking like the devil....