A Gwagwalada Magistrates’ Court in Abuja, on Wednesday sentenced a 32-year-old housewife, Justice Kayode to six months imprisonment for adultery.
The court, however, granted the second accused bail in the sum of N200,000.
The police charged Kayode and her sexual partner, Iroghama Charles, 39, both of Chukukun village, Gwagwalada, Abuja, with three counts bordering on criminal conspiracy and adultery by man and woman.
Charles is a civil servant.
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.
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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.
It is earlier reported that, a Karmo Grade 1 Area Court, Abuja, on Friday sentenced one Rose James, 23, to two months in prison for adultery.
The judge, Alhaji Abubakar Sadiq, however, gave her N10,000 option of fine.
The judge advised her to desist from committing offence and to be a decent woman.
“You should always set your goals right, this will also serve as deterrent to others would be offenders,’’ Sadiq said
Before her conviction, James a resident of Karmo, prayed the court to temper justice with mercy, blaming her husband for her promiscuous lifestyle.
According to her, “my husband does not treat me right, but this new man does, he buys clothes and other things.’’
The convict told the court that she had told her husband’s family that she wanted to divorce him.
The prosecutor, Zannah Dalhatu, told the court that James Olanga, the husband of Rose, had reported the matter at the Karmo Police Station, on July 17.
Dalhatu said the complainant reported that his wife committed adultery and got pregnant for another man.
During police investigation, she confessed to the offence.
The prosecutor said that the offence was punishable under Section 387 of the Penal Code.
