Give me till Easter, he pleads
A magistrates’ court sitting in Gidan Murtala, Kano, has ordered one Isyaku Shu’aibu who owns a rooster notorious for its loud crows to slaughter it for disturbing neighbours and halting their sleep.
A neighbour of the defendant, Yusuf Muahmmad Ja’en, filed a complaint at the court, presided over by Magistrate Halima Wali, claiming that the rooster’s crows disturbed their sleep and peace in the neighbourhood.
When the charge was read to the owner, he confirmed that the cock crowed too much, but that he was planning to slaughter it soon.
In her judgment, Magistrate Wali ordered that the owner should slaughter the rooster as soon as he left the court.
However, the owner pleaded with the court to give him grace of some days as he was planning to slaughter it on Good Friday.
The magistrate, convinced by the complainants’ argument, agreed and ruled that the cock should be caged and slaughtered on April 7, being Good Friday.
