Anyone who kill a fellow human, recklessly, will be compelled to pay a sum of 21.6 million Naira or go to jail, the Kebbi State Government announced on Thursday.
The government as a means of reducing incessant killings in and around the state said that it would ensure the enforcement of the provisions of Sharia Law on reckless killings.
The government decision was disclosed by Alhaji Abdullahi Shema, the Special Adviser to the Governor on Religious Affairs.
Shema while speaking in an interview in Birnin Kebbi said that any act that resulted in the loss of another life would attract the payment of compensation or a jail term of 15 years. He said that the value of human life in Islamic and Sharia laws had been estimated to be N21.6million.
Sharia law is an Islamic cannonical law based on the teachings of the Koran and the traditions of the Prophet (Hadith and Sunna), prescribing both religious and secular duties and sometimes retributive penalties practiced in some Northern states of the country.
“Whoever killed human life recklessly would be compelled to pay the amount or be imprisoned". He said that state authorities, in collaboration with the council of chiefs, the Ulama, the FRSC, the NURTW, the VIO and the state House of assembly would ensure the implementation of the law.
"We will work against outside influence during court proceedings and prosecution of offenders."
"We will work against outside influence during court proceedings and prosecution of offenders."
Shema, however, called on the state House of assembly to enact a law that would regulate the sale and consumption of illegal drugs. He said this had become necessary considering the rampant abuse of patent medicines. "The rampant abuse of cough syrup was alarming among the youths", he said.
The state Hisbah board had prosecuted 160 cases and resolved 560 matrimonial disputes in the past two years.
Source: Daily Times
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