It was reported that the Nigerian Legal Aid Council...

It was reported that the Nigerian Legal Aid Council was to appeal against the conviction of 30 people by sharia courts for various offences in Bauchi State.
Twenty-eight of the convicts were to be amputated for offences ranging from theft to causing grievous harm and receiving stolen goods while two had been condemned to death by stoning for illicit acts.
Disclosing this to newsmen in Bauchi, the Director-General of the council, Mrs. Ujie Aisha Hassan Baba, who was on tour of the nation's prisons said the convicted persons were entitled to free access to justice.
Mrs. Hassan Baba stated that all the convicts were willing to appeal against their sentences because they felt that their cases had not been properly handled.
"Unfortunately, what happened during the trial was that most of them were not represented in the courts, especially the two convicts sentenced to death by stoning".
Umaru Tori, a 54-year-old man, was to be stoned to death for sex with his stepdaughter, while Selah Dabo, 18, was to be stoned to death after being found guilty of rape by the sharia legal system.