Court remands killers of NDLEA officer in Minna
The four soldiers who killed an official of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have been remanded in prison by a Senior Magistrate Court in Minna.
The defendants, Sani Munzali, Mu’azu Hassan, Abubakar Awalu, and Sani Abubakar were arraigned on two counts of charges of criminal conspiracy and culpable homicide.
According to the police prosecutor, Emmanuel Ogiri, the four defendants were reported to the Police A Divisional Command in Bida by one Danjuma Bisalla, while he was on duty with his team on stop and search along Ramatu Dangana road in Bida.
He said: “You Mohammed Abdullahi, a military personnel drove a motorcycle toward them. They stopped him to search his bike and person for anti-drugs.
“You Mohammed Abdullahi initially refused to submit yourself for search to the NDLEA officers on stop and search duty and later after much argument you left their post and thirty minutes later you mobilized and returned with six men.
“Three dressed in Military uniform and three in mufti, namely Sani Munzali, Abubakar Auwalu, Muhazi Hassan and Abubakar Sani. Without any provocation, you conspired among yourselves and while armed with dangerous weapons such as jack-knife, Cutlass, and sticks attacked one Kingsley Ifeanyi, an NDLEA personnel in Bida who sustained an injury on his back. He was rushed to the Federal Medical Centre Bida where he was confirmed dead on arrival.
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“The Nigeria army Bida on receipt of the information arrested you and court marshaled, dismissed you all from the Nigerian Army, and handed you over to the Nigeria Police for prosecution. During police Investigation, you, Sani Munzali confessed that you collected a jack-knife from the said Tanimu Mohammed now at large stabbed the deceased on his back.”
The president Senior Magistrate, Hajiya Hadiza Hamza Imam read the charges to the suspects who pleaded not guilty to the two-count charges.
The Police Prosecutor, Inspector Emmanuel Ogiri told the court that the investigation into the matter has just commenced requesting the court to remand them in Correctional Custody pending the completion of the investigation.
Imma refused the oral bail application and ordered their remand adjourning the case to 20th June for further mention.
