M.A. Mustapha Esq: We are also ready.
Court:
Proceed.
A.A. Illo Esq: Our PW1 Inspector Ahmad Abubakar. He is a Police
Officer and will testify in English language. We apply that the
witness be called into the witness box.
Court:
Permission to call PW1 into the witness box is hereby
granted.
PW1 (after affirmation): My name is Inspector Ahmad Abubakar. I live
at No. 18 Kambe Road Sahara Area, Sokoto. I am a Police
Officer and a public servant. I work with State CID Sokoto
attached to CID as an Exhibit Keeper. I have been working
for 9 years as an Exhibit Keeper. Some of my duties are
accepting and registering of items in connection with criminal
cases, and tendering them before a court of law if the need
arise. I am AP/No. 180197. I know the defendant on the
12/3/2021 when I was in the office at the State CID Office
Sokoto where Inspector Danjuma Giwa brought to me the
defendant along with one (1) AK47 riffle with 18 rounds of
live ammunitions and 4 empty shells of AK47 riffle for
registration in connection with the case of Culpable Homicide
against the defendant whose name is Ex CPL Aliyu Tukur. I
registered the items as follows:(i) AK47 riffle No. 21/A/2024
(ii) 4 empty shells No. 21/B/2021
The AK47 riffle has an attachment of 18 rounds of live
ammunition which were loaded in the magazine. I attached
and labeled the exhibits which the label carried the exhibit
number, the day I registered the exhibit and the ammunitions
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