A Katsina State High Court sitting in Funtua on Thursday
sentenced Mu’ammar Tukur, son of former District
Head of Bakori, to death by hanging.
The man is was sentenced to death for culpable
homicide.
NAN reports that Tukur, 32, whose late father
represented Bakori/Danja Federal Constituency at
Federal House of Representatives, was convicted for
using a knife to stabbed Shafir Muktar to death.
In his judgment, Justice Abbas Bawale said the
prosecution led by Mr Aminu Garba had established the
case of culpable homicide against the convict beyond
reasonable doubt.
Bawale said the prosecution called five witnesses and
tendered four exhibits which established the three
needed ingredients, including the death of the victim,
cause of the death and intention of the action.
He said the incident occurred on April 21, 2008, in a
serial fight between the convict and the some of the
prosecution witnesses at viewing centre. The judge said
the defence counsel, Mr AbdulAziz Olagoke, effort to
contradict the evidence of the prosecution was futile.
He said the defence argument that the prosecution did
not tender the metallic material used in committing the
offence could not be sustained. The judge held that the
convict ran way between 2008 and 2013 and was
arrested at the graveyard during the funeral of his
deceased mother.
Bawale held that convict’s reliance on provocation was
not material because he left the scene and came with
the metallic instrument to perpetrate the action. He said
the prosecution had proved the case beyond a
reasonable doubt as required by law and sentenced the
convict to death by hanging.
The judge also said the plea for leniency could not be
entertained because the court’s discretion was blocked
by law and directed that the plea should be set to the
state governor. He advised the defence to file its appeal
within 90 days.
