Housewife jailed for Infidelity in Abuja

Victoria Ogunrinde

A Magistrate Court in Gwagwalada Abuja, has sentenced Mrs. Justice Kayode to six months imprisonment for committing adultery.

The police charged the 32-year-old 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.

The Court Magistrate, Yusuf Ibrahim however granted Kayode an option of N5,000 fine after she pleaded guilty to the charges.

However, the court granted Charles who is a civil servant bail in the sun of N200, 000 with two reasonable sureties in like sum.
Ibrahim ordered that the sureties must reside within the court’s jurisdiction and must have a verifiable address.

He stated 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 resides in Chukukun Gwagwalada, Abuja reported the matter at the police station on 13 July. 

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

Tanko 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.