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Son accused for Killing Father

24/12/2010 No comments

Son accused for Killing Father

A Kano High Court heard yesterday that the son of the mur­dered SSS officer charged with die murder of his father and four other members of the family was threatened while in the custody of the SSS in Kano to admit committing the crime.

Counsel to Bello Garba Bello, Ahmed Raji, submitted to the court that his client was threatened and made promises in the hands of the SSS operatives after the incident before the police came to obtain his statement.

Raji told the court that Garba, popularly called Baba, had been warned that refusing to admit the offence may lead him to being handed over to the police to be shot in the leg and have his nails removed. The counsel, who said this while rais­ing objection to an application to tender a statement purport­edly made by the accused person to the police, argued that the statement was involuntarily made. He said his client was further warned that if he failed to act as instructed, someone else was going to write down the statement and that it would be attributed to him.

A police investigator, PC Mu’azu Ibrahim, earlier told the court that the statement was obtained from the accused person under words of caution two days after the September incident. PC Ibrahim said when they first met Garba at the state SSS office on 13 September, 2010; they suspected his complicity in the crime, even though the accused person blamed it on others. The presiding judge, Justice Abdullahi Muhammad Halliru, has adjourned the case to January 4 and 5, 2011 for commence­ment of trial within trial on the said statement.

Daily Trust, Friday, December 10, 2010,

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From Lawan Danjuma Adamu, Kano

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A Man used his hands and killed his Daughter

18/10/2010 No comments

A Man used his hands and killed his Daughter

A 65-year-old man, Malam Abba Jamji, has appeared before a Gombe Magistrate’s Court for allegedly killing his two-year-old daughter, Hauwa, by suffocating her.

The prosecution alleged that Jamji, a resident of Malam-madu village in Kwami Local Government Area of Gombe State, put the girl in a sack, tied it and dumped her in a nearby bush on September 12, 2010.

The court heard that Hauwa was the product of an illicit affair between Jamji and his wife’s younger sister. When the charge of culpable homicide, punishable under Section 221 of the Penal Code, was read to the accused, he told the magistrate that he understood the alleged offence (NAN)

Daily Trust Thursday, October 14, 2010

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A Child killed another Child in the Class

12/10/2010 No comments

A Child killed another Child in the Class

THE 10-year-old pupil of All Saints Primary School, Oke-Ijebu in Ondo State, Endurance Ikimi, who shot and killed her classmate, Ismalia Opeyemi, with a double barrel gun Wednesday has been kept in police protective custody.

Speaking with Daily Trust in Akure yesterday, Mr. Adeniran

Aremu, the Public Relations Officer in Ondo State, said there was need to keep the girl in their custody to ensure safety.

Ikimi was picked by police shortly after the incident. Another pupil, Dare Abiodun, who was hit by bullet was said to have been taken to the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital, Ile-Ife.

Aremu who said the age of Ikimi was between 10 and 13, said she would remain in police protective custody pending when the police complete preliminary investigation, stressing that the command had started investigation on who hid the guns in the school.

Our correspondent who visited the school observed that the class­room and the teachers’ offices were still shut as at yesterday.

Meanwhile, Governor Olusegun Mimiko, fought back tears as he visited the school yesterday, assur­ing that such an incident which he blamed on the porous nature of most of the schools, would not hap­pen again. He also assured that his government would definitely build schools with the right atmosphere for studies and security.

Mimiko, in commiserating with the teachers and family of the pupil as well as the Anglican Church Community, declared that the incident underscored the decision of his government to build mega primary schools across the State, adding that government was spending N500 million on massive renovation and fencing of all dilapidated primary school buildings across the state.

DAILY Trust Friday, October 8, 2010

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From Adewale Giwa, Akure

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