-Caveat Lector- Wednesday, January 3 9:50 PM SGT 180 lashes for Nigerian teen mum to go ahead: governor GUSAU, Nigeria, Jan 3 (AFP) - The governor of the Nigerian state which has sentenced a 17 year-old-girl to 180 lashes for engaging in pre-marital sex insisted Wednesday the punishment will be carried out. Governor Ahmed Sani of Zamfara State told AFP that recent media reports that he was under pressure from the federal government not to allow the sentence to go ahead were false. "We are under no pressure from anyone. The law is the law and people respect that," Sani said. "Even if the federal government issues an instruction it would have no reason to do so. "We will go ahead and carry out the punishment," he added. The girl, Bariya Ibrahim Magazu, was sentenced in September by an Islamic court in Tsafe in Zamfara State to be lashed 180 times after she was discovered to be pregnant despite being unmarried. Asked who was the father, the girl named three middle-aged men from her village who she said had pressured her into engaging in sex. The judge of the local Islamic court, Idris Usman Gusau, ruled that under the terms of Islamic law introduced in Zamfara last year, she had not proven her claims against the three men. He sentenced her to 80 lashes for pre-marital sex and 100 lashes for making unproven claims against the men. The sentence is to be carried out around 40 days after the birth which took place last week. Magazu gave birth to a daughter who has yet to be named. Several human rights groups, including Amnesty International, and the government of Canada have expressed concern about the case. But in an interview with journalists last weekend, President Olusegun Obasanjo, a Christian, said he will not intervene. Obasanjo has been criticised by many Christian leaders who see him as overcautious in his reaction to Islamic punishments being introduced by leaders of the mainly Muslim north. An AFP correspondent who visited Magazu's village Tuesday said both mother and child appeared healthy but was prevented by family members from speaking to the girl. The family said she would receive the punishment set by the court. A court official told AFP no firm date had yet been set for the sentence to be carried out but predicted it would be around the end of January. The punishment would be carried out on the floor of the court premises either by police or Islamic vigilante members, the court official said. The case is the most high profile so far in a series of punishments carried out since nine northern Nigerian states voted last year to introduce strict Islamic law. The measure is opposed by minority Christians in the north and by the Christian majority in the south of the country. 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