Bridget's decapitation: Police arraign 5 suspects in court

Five out of the 13 persons accused of killing Mrs. Bridget Mike Agbahime at Kofar Wambai market on June 2 have been arraigned before a Kano Chief Mag­istrate Court presided over by Chief Magistrate Mohammed Jubril on Fri­day.

The arraigned suspects included Dauda Ahmed first accused person, Abdulmumuni Musta­pha, Zubairu Abubakar, Abdullahi Abubakar and Musa Abdullahi. Others said to be at large included Salawihu Ibrahim, Dini Ishyaku, Mallam Sani, Safiyanu, Mallam Umar and Yunusa. According to the First Information Re­port (FIR), the 13 accused persons on Thursday June 2, raised false alarm, ac­cusing the late Mrs. Agba­hime of insulting Prophet Mohammed, with the in­tention of causing breach of the peace which led to the killing of Mrs Aga­hime and destruction of a Toyota car, valued at N1.4 million, property of Pas­tor Mike Agbahime, hus­band of the deceased.

The accused were ar­raigned on a four-count charge of culpable homi­cide contrary to section 221, inciting disturbances contrary to section 114, joint act of culpable homi­cide contrary to section 80 and mischief contrary to section 331 all of the Penal Code.

When the charges were read to them, they plead­ed not guilty to all the charges.

However, the prosecu­tion counsel, Usman Ju­bril prayed the court to re­mand the accused persons in prison custody in view of the fact that investiga­tion was still on-going as the police were spread­ing their dragnet to arrest other accused persons who are currently at large.

Counsel to the first accused person, N.Y. Gorondutse and K.A. Sadiq who appeared for the third accused per­son did not object to the prayer.

Chief Magistrate Mo­hammed Jubril accord­ingly granted the prayer of the prosecution and adjourned the case to June 28.