Seven middle aged men were on friday sentenced to six months
imprisonment by the Kano State Censorship Tribunal over possession of
pornographic films and illegal sales of movie clips.
Ibrahim
Rabi’u, Haruna A. Magaji, Danjummai Abdullahi, Mukhtar Umar, Jamilu
Ishaq, Nura Abdullahi and Salisu Raqib were found with the obscene
materials on November 27, 2012, Senior State Counsel Hussain Hassan said
.
The films, he said, tend to corrupt public morals, adding that
engaging in the business of illegal download and distribution of films
and video works violate section 97 (1),(A) and section 99 (1) of the
cinematography (licensing) censor regulation 2001 respectively, and
punishable under section 112 of the same law.
When the charges were read to the convicts, they all pleaded guilty and begged the court for leniency.
The
state council, therefore, applied for the destruction of the computers
that were used to download the said films and for the convicts to pay
compensation to the producers and the censorship board as provided under
section 97 (2) of the censorship board regulation 2001.
The
Presiding Judge, Justice Mukhtar Ahmad, sentenced the convicts to three
months imprisonment with an option to pay a fine of 20,000 naira each.
Justice
Mukhtar also granted the state counsel application and ordered the
convicts to pay N200,000 naira each as compensation to the censorship
board and the producers of the said films or risk six months
imprisonment under section 365 of the criminal court procedure law.
The court also ordered the Censorship board to destroy the computers as also applied by the Counsel.
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