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Court remands APC chieftain over call for resistance of Sanusi’s return to Kano palace
Court remands APC chieftain over call for resistance of Sanusi’s return to Kano palace
A Kano Magistrate Court has ordered the remand of a stalwart of All Progressive Congress, (APC) Abdulmajid Danbilki Kwamanda over an alleged call for resistance against the purported move by the Kano State Government to alter the current structure of Kano emirate council.
Kwamanda who was arraigned by Kano state Police Command for alleged breach of public peace was said to have promoted violence through a live program on a local radio station in Kano.
On arraignment Tuesday evening, prosecution counsel, Bar. Abdussalam Saleh Danmaidaki told the court that Kwamanda’s actions contravene Section 144 of the Kano State Penal Code Law.
However, the defendant pleaded not guilty to the one-count charge leveled against him.
In response, the defense counsel, Ibrahim Abdullahi Chedi, pleaded with the court to grant the defendant bail, assuring that he would not jump bail.
Chedi also informed the court that the defendant was suffering from an ailment, appealing for the court to exercise its discretion in favour of his client.
The defense counsel further buttressed the bail application for his client on the provisions of Sections 35 (5) and 36 of the constitution, as well as the relevant provisions of the Administration of Criminal Justice Law, ACJL 2019.
Meanwhile, the prosecution counsel, Bar. Danmaidaki, opposed the bail application.
After listened to the arguments the presiding magistrate ordered the remand of the party starlwart, Kwamanda and adjourned the matter to 29th January, 2024 for ruling on the bail application.
Prior to his arraignment, the police has detailed Kwamanda for the comment made where he called Kano residents to reject the NNPP administration to dissolve the five emirates.
Kwamanda was quoted “I am calling on Kano people to stand against government plan to dismantle our five emirates and their emirs. And any attempt to dismantle them will be met with resistance. We would make Kano ungovernable and make sure state of emergency is declared in Kano.”
The CP Gumel said the suspect, while featuring on a local radio station, and in a viral video, called on residents of the state to resist attempts by the state government to reorganize the current structure of the five Emirate Councils in the state.
The commissioner said that he had profiled the suspect and found that he had separately and severally been using the same medium to disseminate hate-speech, recorded on various social and conventional media channels, as a money-making venture.
He urged citizens, especially Kano residents, to note that those potentially harmful messages were ill-intended and cannot project anything good or promote political interests, and should, therefore, “quietly ignore the subversive content” when they come across them.
“A word is enough for the wise. There is no more space for any form of criminality in our area of supervision as competent intelligence officers have been deployed in and outside the metropolis to build confidence of the people and beef up the desired relentlesslyrelentlessly,” CP Gumel said.
Court remands APC chieftain over call for resistance of Sanusi’s return to Kano palace
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200,000 repentant terrorists surrender, drop arms in North East – CDS
200,000 repentant terrorists surrender, drop arms in North East – CDS
The Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa, has disclosed that about 200,000 repentant terrorists have so far dropped their arms and surrendered to troops in the North East, noting that the twin strategy of kinetic and non-kinetic operations was responsible for this achievement.
The CDS made this known at the Security and Justice Symposium organised by the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) in collaboration with the British High Commission, which began at the National Counterterrorism Centre in Abuja on Tuesday.
He disclosed that the theme of the symposium, ”Securing Peace, Ensuring Justice, Protection, Conduct, and Accountability,” speaks volumes about the deluge of security challenges the armed forces and security agencies are facing.
His words, “All the challenges we are facing today have to do with fairness, equity, justice, and accountability.
“There will not be peace without justice, equity, fairness, and accountability. In our operations, we are conducting both kinetic and non-kinetic strategies, which have to a large extent yielded significant successes, and we want to particularly thank the National Security Adviser for his great support in this regard.
“Nigeria is going through so many challenges, and we feel we’re able to address this, and everybody has a sense of belonging. A lot of the security challenges we are having, we are sure, will go down. I want to thank the National Security Advisor for all the support he’s given us, both the kinetic and the non-kinetic.
“We have said it; the kinetic aspect is just less than 30%. The non-kinetic has a lot to play. The non-kinetic, because when you have democracy, people must have the evidence of democracy. As long as it tells people to sleep well and be peaceful, and they are hungry, their children cannot eat, and all this creates more problems.
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“The issue of informants. We have to look at how we tackle this issue of informants. Because these are the people who have created the issue.
200,000 repentant terrorists surrender, drop arms in North East – CDS
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Robbers kill two members in shoot-out with Delta police
Robbers kill two members in shoot-out with Delta police
The spokesperson for the police in Delta State, SP Bright Edafe, has confirmed the death of two robbery suspects in the state.
Mr Edafe, who disclosed this to journalists on Tuesday in Warri, said that the deceased were killed from the bullets shot by their gang members.
According to him, the incident occurred on Wednesday at Effurun, Uvwie Local Government Area of the state.
Mr Edafe explained that the deceased were leading the police surveillance team attached to the Ekpan Division to their hideout when they were caught during a shoot-out.
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“The suspects were arrested at Effurun roundabout with a bag containing 57 live cartridges and other items. They were leading the surveillance team to their hideout at Warri/Sapele road when their gang members, on sighting the vehicle of the police team, engaged them in a shootout.During the gun duel, the arrested suspects that were leading the police team were fatally wounded by the gun shot of their colleagues. The two injured suspects were taken to the hospital and later died while receiving treatment,” he said.
Mr Edafe said that items recovered from the hoodlums hideout included: one English pump action gun, one locally made cut-to-size gun and eight live cartridges.
Others were: six iPhones, Smart phones and a Rolex wrist watch.
He said that the command had intensified manhunt on the fleeing members of the gang.
Robbers kill two members in shoot-out with Delta police
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