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Court orders army chief to produce Wadume’s alleged accomplices for arraignment
Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday ordered the Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, to produce the army officers that allegedly aided the escape of a suspected kidnap kingpin, Hamisu Bala (Wadume) in court.
The judge also asked Buratai or any other person in whose custody the suspects were kept to provide them in court by March 30.
Some soldiers attached to the 93 Battalion, Takum, Taraba State, had on August 6, 2019 shot members of a special anti-crime squad from the Inspector General of Police Office, who had arrested Wadume and were taken him to the state police command in Jalingo for interrogation, killing three policemen and two civilians on the spot.
Justice Nyako said the court would enroll the order to the prosecution so that they could serve it to the parties involved.
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The police had filed a 16- count charge of terrorism, murder, kidnapping and illegal possession of arms against Wadume and 19 other suspects.
The judge ordered the suspects to appear in court on that day.
Earlier, the prosecution counsel, Simon Lough, told the court that the Inspector -General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, had sent a letter to the army chief and Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Abayomi Olonisakin, seeking the release of the 2nd to 11th defendants to the police for arraignment and possible prosecution.
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