A Kano State Excessive Court docket sentenced 27-year-old Kassim Hussain to fifteen years in jail on Wednesday for killing a Kano Highway Visitors Company officer, Tijjani Adamu Gambo, who was making an attempt to take away his automobile’s licence plate.
The courtroom additionally imposed a wonderful of N500,000, with an extra five-year jail time period if Hussain fails to pay the wonderful.
Presiding Choose, Justice Maryam Sabo, dominated that the sentences will run concurrently and start from the date of Hussain’s arrest.
Based on the prosecution, represented by Barrister Mahdi Aliyu Abdulrahman from the Kano State Ministry of Justice, Hussain dedicated culpable murder on October 29, 2021, round 10:00 am on Airport Highway, reverse Eldorado Cinema in Nassarawa Native Authorities Space.
The cost said that he deliberately struck Gambo along with his automobile to evade arrest and stop the elimination of his licence plate.
“That you just, Kassim Hussain, 27, on or concerning the twenty ninth of October 2021 at about 10:00 hours at Airport Highway, reverse Eldorado Cinema in Nassarawa Native Authorities Space, inside the Judicial Division of this Honourable Court docket, dedicated culpable murder with loss of life, in that you simply precipitated the loss of life of 1 Tijjani Adamu Gambo, a Kano Highway Visitors Company (KAROTA) personnel who was on responsibility, by doing an act to wit, you knocked him down and ran over him together with your automobile in an effort to forestall him from eradicating your licence plate or taking you to their workplace. And thereby dedicated an offence punishable beneath Part 221 of the Penal Code (CAP 105) Legal guidelines of Kano State 1991,” the cost learn.
To assist their case, the prosecution known as 5 witnesses and submitted numerous displays, together with a medical certificates, pictures of the deceased, and statements recorded through the investigation.
Among the many prosecution witnesses offered had been Adamu Gambo Unguwa Uku, the daddy of the deceased, Suleiman Shehu Ismail, KAROTA personnel at Eldorado Cinema, Dr Ibrahim, who examined the deceased and confirmed his loss of life, and the Investigative Police Officer who recorded the assertion of the defendant.
The abstract of the proof by the prosecution counsel knowledgeable the courtroom that on October 29, 2019, the convict, in his try to flee from arrest by KAROTA personnel, hit the deceased along with his automobile, an motion that led to his loss of life.
On his half, the defence counsel, Barrister Felix Jones Osimerha, offered Kassim Hussain, who defended himself as a sole defence witness.
The defendant was charged beneath Part 221 of the Penal Code, punishable with a loss of life sentence.
Consequently, nevertheless, after listening to and contemplating the witnesses and displays offered through the trial, the presiding choose, Justice Maryam Sabo, discovered the defendant responsible beneath Part 222 of the Penal Code, culpable murder not punishable by loss of life.
The courtroom convicted and accordingly sentenced Kassim Hussain beneath Part 224 of the Penal Code, not punishable with loss of life.
Part 224 states that whoever commits culpable murder not punishable by loss of life shall be punished with imprisonment for all times, or any lesser time period with a wonderful, or each.