The Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, Alhassan Ado Doguwa, was, yesterday, remanded in prison by a Magistrate Court Sitting in Kano.
Kano State Commissioner of Police, Muhammad Yakubu had, yesterday, announced that the command arrested Hon. Doguwa over alleged complicity in electoral violence recorded in Tudun Wada Local Government Area, LGA of the state, leading to the murder of three persons and grievous injuries to eight others during the just concluded general elections.
The House Leader was arraigned before Senior Magistrate Ibrahim Mansur Yola for a five-count charge bordering on unlawful possession of firearm, mischief, culpable homicide, disturbance of public peace, and criminal conspiracy.
Doguwa was alleged to have led thugs who set the Tudun-Wada LGA’s office of the New Nigeria People’s Party(NNPP) ablaze, leading to the death of one Alhassan Sarki Pawa and Aminu Malam.
The Police also alleged, in its First Information Report, that Doguwa was found with a gun which he used to shoot one dead and left about three others with injuries.
While the Defence Counsel prayed the court to grant Hon. Doguwa bail, the Prosecution Counsel objected stating that some of the charges against the accused were capital offences.
The magistrate, Ibrahim Yola, said he had no jurisdiction to entertain the charges. He, however, ordered that the defendant be remanded in prison custody till March 7, 2023, when the case comes up.
Author: Stella Adeniyi