Signed
Hon. Justice Mohammed Mohammed
(Judge)
3/2/2023
Court resumed today 14/3/2023
Appearance:
A.A. Illo AG/PT MOJ Sokoto State with A.C. Dattijo SSC for the state.
M.A. Mustapha Esq. for the defendant.
A.A. Illo AG/PT: The defendant is before the court and speaks Hausa
language.
Court to Registrar: Affirm yourself to interpreter the proceedings of this
court from sighted to Hausa and vice versa.
A.A. Illo AG/PT: The case is adjourned to today for continuation of
hearing. We have called 5 witnesses so far and owing to the
order of this court Motion No. SS/M.72/2023, we apply to
call Usman Zubairu into the witness box as our PW6.
Court:
Application granted.
PW6 (after affirmation: My name is Inspector Usman Zubairu. I live at
Unguwar Rogo Police Barrack and attacked to Unguwar
Rogo Police Station as an Armourer. I am Ap/No. 240607. I
have been an armourer for about 7 years and some of my
duties is to issue arms and ammunitions to our officers who
are going on a duty. I know the defendant and his name is
Ex-Officer Aliyu Tukur. I was serving with him in the same
division and I can remember that on 7/3/2021 the defendant
was assigned to join a patrol at the headquarters. He came to
my office and signed for arms and he was given the arms
which consist of AK 97 riffle with 25 rounds of live
ammunitions 7.62mm.
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