{"id":165468,"date":"2025-06-03T15:28:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T14:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/student-bags-3-months-community-service-over-threat-to-life"},"modified":"2025-06-03T16:32:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T15:32:01","slug":"student-bags-3-months-community-service-over-threat-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/student-bags-3-months-community-service-over-threat-to-life","title":{"rendered":"Student bags 3 months\u2019 community service over threat to life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>A Chief Magistrate Court sitting at Mapo in Ibadan on Tuesday sentenced 18-year-old student of Olunde Community Secondary School, Fawaz Hamzat, to three months of community service.<\/p>\n<p>Hamzat was sentenced for chasing a rival secondary school student with a cutlass during an inter school fight.<\/p>\n<p>The Magistrate, Mrs O.O. Latunji, held that she convicted and sentenced Hamzat based on his guilty plea and the evidence tendered by the prosecution against him.<\/p>\n<p>Latunji warned the convict to desist from involving himself in any form of crime in future or he would be given a stiffer punishment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, to serve as a deterrent to others, Hamzat is sentenced to three months of community service,\u201d Latunji said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the prosecuting counsel, Insp Oluseye Akinola, told the court that the convict committed the crime on May 22, at about 3.00 p.m, at Olunde area of Ibadan, Oyo State.<\/p>\n<p>Akinola said that a neighbourhood security personnel together with other concerned members of the community apprehended Hamzat after he was found in possession of a cutlass, chasing students of Olunde Grammar School, a rival secondary school, during an inter school fight.<\/p>\n<p>According to the prosecutor, the offence contravened the provision of Section 249 of the Criminal Code Cap 38 vol. ii law of Oyo State, 2000.<\/p>\n<p>Interschool rivalry leading to exchange of dangerous weapons was common especially among secondary schools in the less city areas of Ibadan.<\/p>\n<p>The rivalry was beginning to rear its ugly head again as was the case decades ago.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. A Chief Magistrate Court sitting at Mapo in Ibadan on Tuesday sentenced 18-year-old student of Olunde Community Secondary School, Fawaz Hamzat, to three months of community service. Hamzat was sentenced for chasing a rival secondary school student with a cutlass during an inter school fight. The Magistrate, Mrs O.O. 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