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Thursday 29 December 2016

Court sentences son of former House of Reps member to death by hanging

 A High court sitting in Katsina State has sentenced 32 year old Mu’ammar Tukur, son of former House of Representatives member and District Head of Bakori, to death by hanging for culpable homicide.

Tukur was dragged before the court for using a knife to stab one Shafir Muktar to death on April 21st 2008 during a fight between him and some other young men at a football viewing center.


Delivering judgment in the case today, the presiding judge, Justice Abbas Bawale, said the argument put forward by the convict's counsel, AbdulAziz Olagoke, were unsustainable.

Bawale ‎said that the accused went into hiding between 2008 and 2013 after committing the crime and was arrested at the grave yard during the funeral of his deceased mother.

He added that Tukur's explanation that he was provoked to commit the crime was not satisfactory because he left the scene and came with the metallic instrument to commit the crime.

The judge said the prosecution had proved the case beyond reasonable doubt as required by law and sentenced the convict to death by hanging. He stressed that the plea for leniency could not be entertained because the court’s discretion was blocked by law and directed that the plea should be set to the state governor.

20 comments:

Unknown said...

wowuuu
-D great anonymous now as Vivian Reginalds

Unknown said...

In this Nigeria huh? UNTIL I SEE ROPE ON HIS NECK THEN I WILL BELIEVE BUT FOR NOW ALL NA WASH WASH HIS HAUSA FATHER WILL SETTLE THE COURT@THE BACK what a useless country hausas has renderd useless.






















#sad indeed

Unknown said...

........ Kill him already........














............ Liber meniac...........

Unknown said...

Na waoh...

Ohiren Erimiakhena said...

Hmm...

CHERYL (aka FROM GLORY to GLORY) said...

Well, RIP in advance...

Long Live LIB

ifeoma's verdict said...

Good judgement.The bible says, do not be hasty in ur heart to get angry for anger lies in the bosom of fools Eccl 7:9.The boy was a fool, he deserves the judgement.

Anonymous said...

that serves him right

Eddy Ogbunambala said...

Serves him right

NaijaDeltaBabe said...

Oh well...


...merited happiness

Unknown said...

WOOOW, THIS IS REALLY SAD






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Unknown said...

good for him

Unknown said...

Gbese re oh

Anonymous said...

Good news for the day nice judgment given ...post by cally-89

Unknown said...

Ok

Anonymous said...

The holy bible says "thou shall not kill. It is against Christian religion to kill a fellow human being and two wrongs do not make a right. Christians believe that God is the one who created human beings and only God can take the life he has created but sentencing a human being to death is part of a bill passed by Nigerian constitution and christians respect it since it is Nigeria's law. But Muslims are saying that they should not pass the bill of gender equality because it is against their religion. If christians can obey and abide by Nigerian laws that are against their religion, why can't muslims also abide by Nigerian laws that does not favour them? Must every Nigerian law adjust to muslim religion? Please can Nigeria just divide into two and let muslims and christians divide because we are tired of boko haram and Islamic laws of marrying 6 years old girls etc

Unknown said...

Gud one. Dey shuld go ahead

Housed-On-Water said...

Fair judgment

Anonymous said...

Though he was & probably still aggressively wicked but long time imprisonment with hard labour would be a better punishment.

JAO said...

I support one this one @freeborn. So you get sense small.

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