NIGERIA (Abuja)-A Grade 1 Area Court in Karu, FCT, on Wednesday sentenced a landlord, Phillip Zaure, to eight months in prison for causing grievous hurt on his tenant.

Zaure, who resides in Gidan Mangoro on the Abuja Airport road, was arraigned on two counts of criminal force and causing grievous hurt.

The presiding judge, Mr Hassan Ishaq, also ordered Zaure to pay N17,000 being medical expenses incurred by the tenant, Uche Kalu.

The Judge also ordered him to write and sign an undertaken that he would bear all other medical expenses incurred by the complainant.

He gave the accused an option of N35,000 fine.

The prosecutor, Insp. Pascal Njoku, had informed the court that the tenant, Kalu, lodged a report against the accused at the Karshi Police Station on March 24.

Njoku also told the court that the complainant came into the police station, covered in blood, due to injuries he sustained during the assault.

According to Njoku, the complainant said the accused attacked him with a cutlass because he had reported a misdemeanor of the accused’s children to him.

Njoku said the accused was currently receiving treatment at the Primary Healthcare Centre in Gidan Mangoro on the Airport Road.

He said the offence contravened the Penal Code.

The accused pleaded guilty and begged the court for leniency.

“I was provoked because of the manner in which he approached me. I am very sorry,” he said. (NAN)