Housewife jailed 6 months for adultery

A Magistrate Court sitting in Gwagwalada, Abuja, has sentenced a 32-year-old housewife, Kayode Janet, to six months imprisonment for adultery.

The police charged Kayode and her lover, Iroghama Charles, who both reside in Chukuku community in Gwagwalada area council, with three count charges bordering on criminal conspiracy and adultery by the woman and her lover.

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

Ibrahim, admitted Charles to bail in the sum of N200,000 with two sureties, adding that the sureties must reside within the court jurisdiction and must also have a verifiable address.

He said 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, Abdullahi Tanko, told the court that the complainant, Kayode

Akande, who resides in Chukuku, Gwagwalada Area Council reported the matter at the police station on July 13, 2021.

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

He claimed that the act resulted in pregnancy, which the defendant later terminated.

The prosecutor said the offence contravened the provision of section 96, 383 and 387 of the penal code, even as the second defendant pleaded not guilty to charges