Niger police command arrest eight over assault of katcha LG chairman 

Niger police command arrest eight over assault of katcha LG chairman

NASEER BABA- UTHMAN

The police Authority in Minna, the Niger State capital have arrested eight hudlooms that assaulted the Chairman Katcha Local Goverment Council Alhaji Danlami Abdullahi Saku.

The council chairman was beaten to by the hudlooms during last week Eid-kabir  celebration  claiming that the council chairman was  said to have been Indebted to their father to the tune of N1. 360,000 million which he refused to pay.

As a result they were instructed  by their father to collect the money from the council chairman which resulted to exchange of words between the hudlooms and the council chairman.

At the end they bounced on the Chairman and beat him to a state of coma and was rushed to a nearby hospital as a result of the injuries he sustained from the beating

However eight  of the suspected persons and their father have been arrested by officers of the State Criminal investigation and Intelligent Department (SCIID) of the Niger State Police Command headquarters in Minna.

Those in police net, according, to the legal practitioner, included  Alhaji Yanda Alhaji Kasim  (their father),  Liman  Man Hausa Gambo Yako, and Dantenin Yasheshi.

Others are  Suleiman Yasheshi, Yanda Yashshi, Yabagi Bakotsu Alhaji Babakalema and Batman Yasheshi.

Their arrest was sequel to a Petition Forwarded to the Commissioner of Police Niger state Cp Ebenezer Shawulu Danmaman by his lawyer Barrister Mohammed Tsado Mohammed.

Tsado Mohammed in the Petition alleged that on the 16th day of June 2024, “which happened to be  the Sallah day, our client was at home, when the hudlooms met him on the instruction of Alhaji Yanda Alhaji Kasim.

” That they came to inform our client that they came to collect the sum of N1,360,000 ( One million three hundred and sixty- thousand Naira only) belonging to Alhaji Yanda Alhaji Kasim”

The Petitioner further claimed that the council chairman, told them (the hudlooms) the said money was a debt incurred  on behalf of  Katcha Local Goverment during the distribution of palliative by the palliative committee, however the sum of N1,350,000 (One million, three hundred and fifty thousand naira only) is ready out of the 1,360,000 (one million three hundred and sixty-thousand naira) only.

Speaking further Tsado stated that the council Chairman in the presence of the hudlooms put a called to his Director of Finance and Supply (DFS),  to transfer the money to the account of the said Alhaji Yanda.

The legal practitioner further alleged that the hudlooms bundled the Chairman into his ” own car, of which he requested them to allow him drive the car of which they reluctantly agreed but subject to their directions and preferred route to Gadza village where their father was awaiting them”

Sensing that the hudlooms were up to some interior motives the council Chairman asked two of his guest who paid him a Sallah homage the Village head of Ekugi and Man Ndaman Mujahidu to get into his car and he turned on the ignition and moved while the hudlooms were on bikes ” tele-guiding our client’s movement and following him bumper- to- bumper Until our client stopped seven mettrrs away from Gadza village where he was communicating on how the money would be transferred but the network was misbehaving”

He also claimed that his client requested the hudlooms to move backward for better network reception but one of the hudlooms by name Liman Manhausa  came down from his bike and “jacked the council chairman from his car and told him that they are not moving anywhere until he pay the money”

He stated that it was at  that spot the chairman was able to transferred the sum of N1,350,000 (One million three hundred and fifty thousand naira) to the Access Bank account of Alhaji Yanda leaving the balance of N10,000 (Ten thousand naira to Alhaji Yanda’Access Bank account while the hudlooms were continuously hitting and beating  our client’s car.

While discussing with the village head the efforts of his Director of Finance and Supply (DFS)  amidst trouble some network problem to transfer the said money to his account, before he could finish his explanation, Alhaji Yanda said in Hausa ” Ku Kasheshi” meaning ” you should kill him”

On the instruction of their father the petitioner, alleged that one of the hudlooms rough handles  the  chairman and Yabagi Bakotsu  and Liman Man Hausa ran quickly to a place where stone were kept and began to distribute them to thugs who used them to hit ” our client on his head and joints of his body continuously till our client slumped and went uncoscious.”