Agency Report
A former Bauchi State commissioner for Information, Mohammed Damina, has being remanded in correctional custody pending the end of an investigation into the alleged killing of Adamu Babanta, the father of a lady he was asking out.
Damina is being accused of killing his friend in a motor accident on October 30 while trying to escape from the deceased.
The Police Public Relations Officer, SP Ahmed Wakil, while confirming the case to journalists, said, “At about 7:30pm, a case of fatal motor accident was transferred from the Yelwa Division for a discreet investigation, it was a case of culpable homicide.
“One Khadijah Adamu Babanta, was enticed by a man, Mohammed Damina, Galadiman Dass, a 68-year-old resident of Yelwa.
“When Galadima enticed her, she told her father about it, then she told the father that the said man was waiting for her at a filling station.
“Her father followed her to the place. On getting there, the father, now deceased, confronted Galadima through the passenger’s side of his car.
“As they were discussing, Galadima zoomed off the vehicle while the deceased was still hanging on to the car door to a point where he fell and was rushed to ATBUTH for medical attention but was confirmed dead by a medical doctor”
On Thursday, the Chief Magistrate Court III, Safiya Musa Salihu ordered that the politician be remanded in prison.
She gave the order after examining the police First Information Report (FIR) and the coroner’s post-mortem report in respect of the deceased Adamu Babanta as well as the medical report submitted to the court.
The court also ordered that the case be transferred from the Motor Traffic Division to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID).
The court also directed the police to transfer the case from the Motor Traffic Division to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID).
The chief magistrate adjourned the matter until November 23.
