{"id":59,"date":"2026-05-12T21:12:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T20:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blunt.ng\/story\/?p=59"},"modified":"2026-05-12T21:21:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T20:21:45","slug":"kano-cleric-jailed-for-sending-explicit-messages-photos-and-videos-to-married-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blunt.ng\/story\/kano-cleric-jailed-for-sending-explicit-messages-photos-and-videos-to-married-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"Kano cleric jailed for sending explicit messages, photos and videos to married woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img  title=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/blunt.ng\/story\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/what-is-a-split-sentence.jpg\"  alt=\"what-is-a-split-sentence Kano cleric jailed for sending explicit messages, photos and videos to married woman\"  class=\"wp-image-60\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.4992888417882142;width:407px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blunt.ng\/story\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/what-is-a-split-sentence.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/blunt.ng\/story\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/what-is-a-split-sentence-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blunt.ng\/story\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/what-is-a-split-sentence-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An Upper Sharia&#8217;s Court sitting at Kofa Kudu in Kano has sentenced a cleric, Abdulmalik Rabiu, to one month imprisonment for engaging in indecent communication with a married woman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The case followed a complaint lodged with the police by the woman\u2019s husband, after which the suspect, a resident of Maraba in Nasarawa State, was arrested and arraigned before the court presided over by Judge Ibrahim Sarki Yola<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the hearing, the prosecution, led by Nafi\u2019u Kabir, informed the court that the defendant sent explicit messages, nude images and videos to the married woman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rabiu pleaded guilty to the offence and admitted that the woman had informed him she was married.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Defence counsel pleaded for leniency, noting that the defendant is an Islamic cleric in Abuja who teaches over 1,000 students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Delivering judgment, the court held that the conviction was based on the defendant\u2019s voluntary confession.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although the offence attracts up to one year imprisonment, 40 lashes and a fine, the court reduced the sentence to one month imprisonment without an option of fine after considering the plea for mitigation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Upper Sharia&#8217;s Court sitting at Kofa Kudu in Kano has sentenced a cleric, Abdulmalik Rabiu, to one month imprisonment for engaging in indecent communication with a married woman. The case followed a complaint lodged with the police by the woman\u2019s husband, after which the suspect, a resident of Maraba in Nasarawa State, was arrested [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blunt.ng\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blunt.ng\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blunt.ng\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blunt.ng\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blunt.ng\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blunt.ng\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61,"href":"https:\/\/blunt.ng\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/61"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blunt.ng\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blunt.ng\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blunt.ng\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blunt.ng\/story\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}