By the time you’re studying this, the cock can have crowed for the cockerel that has been depriving Kano, northern Nigeria’s greatest metropolis, of its sleep.
But solely after it prompted a neighborhood squabble and a weird case with the rooster’s proprietor ordered to kill his feathered pal.
The motive? The incessant cock-a-doodle-doos apparently disturbed the peace and his neighbors’ sleep.
Magistrate Halima Wali issued the order in opposition to Malam Yusuf final Tuesday declaring the chook a nuisance to the neighborhood, in accordance with courtroom proceedings seen by AFP.
Yusuf instructed the courtroom that he had purchased the chook to rejoice Good Friday and requested to be given till the Christian holy day earlier than killing it for a household feast.
The choose granted the request however warned him to forestall the rooster from roaming the world and disturbing residents.
She additionally requested him to make sure he slaughters the chook on Friday as promised or face a penalty from the courtroom.
It isn’t unlawful to maintain livestock and poultry in properties throughout a lot of Nigeria the place they’re reared for meals and as belongings for fast money in monetary emergencies.
Source: www.dailysabah.com
