Earlyface

The Police in Zamfara State at the
weekend filed criminal charges against
Senator Yerima Bakura and 29 others at a
Zamfara High Court over alleged
conspiracy to commit armed robbery.
In a report by NAN, the counsel to the police,
Oloye Torugbene, sought the leave of the
court to prosecute the case, pursuant to the
Criminal Procedure.
He told the court that all relevant documents,
including affidavits, exhibits, names and
addresses of accused persons, as well as
written statements of witnesses and the
accused persons, had been submitted to the
court.
He, therefore, urged the court to proffer a
criminal charge based on the evidence
provided for prosecution.
He said, already, the accused persons who
had been served arraignment notice, were
released through police administrative bail
and pleaded with the court to fix a date for
hearing.
The Chief Judge of the state, Justice Kulu
Aliyu, said in a ruling that the court was
competent to handle the case. Aliyu urged
the prosecutor to serve the accused persons
with all the relevant documents and fixed
Jan. 13, 2014 for hearing.
The member of the House of
Representatives from Gusau/Tsafe,Alhaji
Ibrahim Shehu, had, in June, alleged that
some people mobilised some thugs to kill
him.
He alleged that during the incident, the
attackers removed large sum of money from
his vehicle.
He reported the case to the Inspector-
General of Police, who set up an
investigation that led to the court case.