Nigerian man sentence to death by stoning for sodomy

Yahoo news ^ | 25 September 2003

[Lorianne]

LAGOS (AFP) - A Nigerian man has been sentenced to death by stoning for sodomy, officials said only moments after single mother Amina Lawal had her stoning sentence for adultery lifted by another Islamic court. The conviction of 20-year-old Jibrin Babaji for sleeping with three boys was made on Tuesday by a Sharia court in the northern Bauchi State, state officials told AFP.

A spokesman for the court, Bala Ahmed, said Babaji had been sentenced after having confessed to sexually molesting the minors at different times over the past year, contrary to the Islamic law, or Sharia, in force in the state.

"Presiding judge Jibril Sani Darazo ruled that the accused should be stoned to death according to Islamic injunction," the spokesman said. Babaji, who remained sober and remorseful throughout the ordeal, vowed to appeal the ruling, he added.

The convicted man would have 30 days to appeal the decision, Ahmed said. "The accused has the right of appeal of 30 days after which the governor will approve (the sentence) or order that there should be a retrial," said the spokesman.

The boys, whose ages were not given, said they had been lured into having sex with the man with an offer of 50 naira (about 30 US cents), according to the court official. They were each sentenced to receive 50 lashes of the cane for accepting the money.

They pleaded for mercy from the Islamic court, but the judge "refused to be persuaded by their pleas and ordered that they should be flogged," the spokesman said.

The announcement came minutes after the Sharia appeals court in Katsina State reversed the adultery conviction for 31-year-old Lawal, a twice-divorced mother of four.

Her case has generated massive controversy and turned a global media spotlight on Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation and a multi-ethnic, multi-religious state eager to rehabilitate its battered human rights reputation. Twelve mainly Muslim states, all above Niger and Benue rivers in northern Nigeria, have reintroduced Sharia since the country's return to civilian rule in 1999, in spite of opposition from the federal government and Christians who make up half of the 126-million population.

President Olusegun Obasanjo, a southern Christian, has been cautious in his public comments and action against the Islamic legal code because of its highly explosive nature.

[ZULU]

Gee. I guess even wacko Muslim States have their good points.

Anybody got a rock???

[prairiebreeze]

One small step forward and 3 giant leaps back. Geeze sometimes I just lose all hope about these people.

Prairie

[wizardoz]

Well! Let me just add sodomy and prostitution to my list of "Things not to do when vacationing in psychotic third world hellholes."

[M. Peach]

"Anybody got a rock???"

Why, feel like getting stoned?

[Temple Drake]

and the problem is what?

[ChemistCat]

The religion of peace and the FReepers of (...what?) agree?

nevermind.

:SIGH:

[Ciexyz]

I hate to jump into threads that get ugly.

[GeronL]

Sticks and Stones may break his bones but it won't hurt me any

[ZULU]

No. I never get "stoned".

Sodomites like this pervert should be eliminated from the gene pool. Personally, I would feel more comfortable delivering a bullet to his head - less messy that way.

Stoning can spread the kind of diseases these vermin carry.
More blood splatter.

[GeronL]

There are very good reasons the third world is the third world

[WillowyDame]

"Well! Let me just add sodomy and prostitution to my list of "Things not to do when vacationing in psychotic third world hellholes"

hahaha, i will protect you!

[Redcoat LI]

He payed them 30 cents?,Cheap and perverted,gimmme a rock.

[kdf1]

Send in the ACLU holding hands with the GLAD.

[Elliott Jackalope]

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In other words, one last grab for the brass ring before biting the big one.

[per loin]

Sounds like a travel ad from a San Francisco newspaper:

"Young boys for 30 cents, and you get stoned for free."

[governsleastgovernsbest]

A Nigerian man has been sentenced to death . . . for sleeping with three boys

"American Express Travel Services, may I help you?"
"Yes, it's Elton. Elton John."
"Yes, Mr. John, how may I help you?"
"Uh, I'd like to cancel those reservations I made for that trip to Lagos."

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I think you're on to something.

[GeronL]

for a bit more than 30 cents he could have gotten a mama-san in Thailand, not much older probably, but he'd have to ask for the Clinton Special and hope there isn't disease

[ChadsDad]

Animals.