SANUSI JCA (Delivering the Lead Judgment): Usman Abdullahi Shagari, the first appellant and the other one hundred and eight co-appellants were arrested at various locations in Toto Local Government Area of Nasarawa State of Nigeria and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja between the 3rd and 10th of May, 2003. They were all alleged to have committed the offences of culpable homicide punishable with death contrary to section 221 of the Penal Code in that they were alleged to have attacked and killed one Mrs. Joyce Maimuna Katai, who was before her death the Commissioner for Women Affairs, Nasarawa State and thirty two other persons in a skirmish that erupted in some villages, of the said Local Government Area during the recent elections into the House of Assembly in the State held on 3rd May, 2003. Other offences that they were variously alleged to have committed as shown in the First Information Report (FIR) include, being members of unlawful assembly, rioting, mischief by fire and …
SHAGARI
V.
COMMISSIONER OF POLICE
(2005) JELR 54110 (CA)
Court of Appeal 22 Feb 2005 Nigeria
Case
Key Passages 10
Citing Cases 5
BriefBot Summary
- The appellants, 109 in number, were arrested following post-election violence in Nasarawa State and Abuja, charged via a First Information Report (FIR) with multiple offences including culpable homicide punishable by death (Penal Code s.2
Case Details
Suit Number:CA/J/7C/2004
Judges:AMIRU SANUSI JCA (Presided and Read the Lead Judgment) IFEYINWA CECILIA NZEAKO JCA IKECHI FRANCIS OGBUAGU JCA
Counsel:H. M. Liman Esq. (with him, A. A. Sangei Esq., K. C. Okoli (Mrs.),
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H. A. Yakubu Esq., A. S. Bako Esq. and Aisha Abbas (Miss)) - for C
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the 109 Appellants.
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T. B. Makama, State Counsel, Ministry of Justice, Nasarawa State
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- for the Respondent.
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