The Yendi Circuit court in the Northern Region has sentenced a 45-year-old man to five years imprisonment for threatening to kill the District Chief Executive(DCE) for Chereponi.
His offence is contrary to section 75 of the Criminal Offences Act 1960, Act 29.
The convict, Abubakari Numburu, is a farmer and resident of Kwame Nansoni in the North East Region.
On November 20, he called the Chereponi DCE, Nashiru Zuwera Muda, on the phone and threatened her: “I will kill you if you dare enter Chereponi”, according to the prosecutor, D/C/Inspector Nicodemus York.
The National Security and the police identified the suspect and arrested him after the complainant reported the case to the Chereponi police.
Abubakari Numburu admitted to the offence in his caution statement and pleaded guilty.
The presiding judge Justice Francis Ayamwuni Asobayire convicted him to five years imprisonment on his plea.