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A Wuse Zone 6 Chief Magistrates’ Court, Abuja on Thursday sentenced a 29-year-old mechanic, Bala Ibrahim, to four years imprisonment for stabbing his colleague.
Chief Magistrate Ibrahim Muhammed, however, gave the convict an option of N30,000 fine.
Muhammad sentenced Ibrahim, who lives in Zone 3, Abuja after he pleaded guilty to causing hurt.
He ordered the convict to pay N50,000 compensation to the complainant.
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The chief magistrate said the convict would serve another four years imprisonment if he failed to pay the compensation.
Prosecutor Dan Ejike had told the court that Abdul Yusuf of Mechanic Village, Wuse Zone 3, Abuja reported the matter at the Wuse Zone 3 Police Station last December 18.
He said the convict stabbed Yusuf repeatedly with a knife during an argument.
Ejike alleged that the victim sustained injuries.
The offence, he said, contravened Section 242 of the Penal Code.
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