Housewife bags six months imprisonment for adultery

Tayo AFOLABI

A 32-year-old housewife, Justina Kayode has been sentenced to six months imprisonment for adultery.

The Gwagwalada Magistrates’ Court in Abuja, on Wednesday however, granted the second accused bail in the sum of N200,000.

The police had charged Kayode and her sexual partner, Iroghama Charles, 39, a civil servant both of Chukukun village, Gwagwalada, Abuja with three counts bordering on criminal conspiracy and adultery by man and woman.

Magistrate Yusuf Ibrahim sentenced Kayode to six months imprisonment with an option of fine of N5,000, after she pleaded guilty to the charges.

Ibrahim admitted Charles to bail in the sum of N200,000 with two reasonable sureties in like sum.

He ordered that the sureties must reside within the court’s jurisdiction and must have a verifiable address.

He said that the sureties must provide means of Identification and must undertake an affidavit to forfeit the bail bond if the defendant jumped bail.

Earlier, the Prosecution Counsel, Abudullahi Tanko, told the court that the complainant, Kayode Akande, who lives in Chukukun Gwagwalada, Abuja reported the matter at the police station on 13 July.

Tanko said that while the first defendant was still wife to the complainant, she had sexual intercourse outside her matrimonial home with the second defendant.

He claimed that the act resulted in pregnancy which the defendants terminated.

The prosecutor said that the offences contravened the provisions of sections 96, 388 and 387 of the Penal Code.

The second defendant pleaded not guilty to the charges.