Clerics Bag 1 Month Imprisonment Or An Option Of Fine For Violating Lockdown Order In Abuja

COVID-19: Five Clerics Sentenced To Jail In Abuja -YOMMY AYILARA.

Two Pastors and three Imams have been sentenced to one-month imprisonment or an option of N5000 fine for violating the lockdown order in the capital city Abuja.

The clerics were sentenced for holding services in their religious organizations despite the lockdown order in Abuja.
They are Pastor Phillips Olumbori of the Celestial Church of Christ, Lugbe, Reverend Moses Chinedu of Mercy city gospel centre, Aco Estate, Lugbe, Imam Abdullahi Mohammed, in Gwarimpa Estate, Imam Suleiman Idris, Mobi close, Area 11, Garki and Deputy Imam Useni Umar, in Mobi close, Area 11, Garki, Abuja.

Presiding Magistrate Idayat Akonni handed down the sentences at the Eagle square Mobile court on Sunday in Abuja.

The Chairman of the Federal Capital Territory, Covid 19 enforcement task force, said that the convicted people should be bothered as they are now ex-convicts having been found guilty and sentenced by a competent court of law.

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