this Hon. Court to be lenient in sentencing of the convict, we humbly urge this Hon. Court to avert its mind and consider the provision of section 310 (2) (a-c) of ACJ: sokoto state 2019, more particularly paragraph 2 (a). We equally urge this Hon. Court to consider the provision of section 400 of ACJL 2019 sokoto state. The convict have been in detention for a period of 3 years 9 months and he has been remorseful all through the trial and he had learned his lesson by the period he had stayed in detention, the convict is a first time offender, in view of which we urge this Hon. Court to consider the provision of S 415 (b) ACJL sokoto state 2019 equally we urge the court to consider S 510 of ACJL of sokoto state 2019, in view of the above provision we urged my lord to temper justice with mercy while exercising its discretion, the convict is a young man with a promising future, and we urged the court to consider the essence and objective of sentencing and consider the appropriate sentencing in this regard the defendant is a married men with a wife and 2 children who solidly defend on him and suffer hardship in his absence we therefore urged my lord to temper justice with mercy while sentencing the convict. M.G. Gidan Madi Esq: The powers to consider any allocutus is at court discretion and the court is enjoyed to exercise such power judicially and judiciously, the punishment for rape under section 260 of penal code law 2019 is a mandatory section we also refer my lord to section 510 (5) ACJL of sokoto state 2019 we urge this Hon. Court to so hold Page 20 of 22