COURT SENTENCES WOMAN TO DEATH FOR TRANSPORTING AMMUNITION TO BANDIT KINGPIN IN ZAMFARA
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By ‘Sefiu Ajape
The Katsina High Court has sentenced Hauwa’u Mukhtar, a female arms courier, to death by hanging for conspiracy to commit, aid, and abet terrorism.
According to Zagazola Makama, a counter-insurgency publication focused on the Lake Chad region, Mukhtar was arrested by operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) at Jibia motor park in Katsina State.
Makama said she was arrested while attempting to transport 438 rounds of 7.62 mm ammunition to one Ado, a notorious bandit kingpin operating in Dunburum Forest, Zamfara State.
The publication added that the DSS arraigned her on a two-count charge before the High Court presided over by Justice A. B. Bawale.
After witness testimonies, tendered exhibits, and final addresses by both prosecution and defence counsel, the judge held that the prosecution proved its case beyond reasonable doubt.
Bawale subsequently sentenced Mukhtar to death by hanging in accordance with the provisions of the Penal Code Law of Katsina State, 2021.
Meanwhile, in a separate terrorism-related case, the Federal High Court in Abuja convicted four persons in June for their involvement in the June 5, 2022 attack on St. Francis Catholic Church, Owo, Ondo State.
Four out of the five suspects initially arraigned were convicted on all nine counts preferred against them by the Federal Government.
The suspects — Idris Omeiza, Al Qasim Idris, Jamiu Abdulmalik, Abdulhaleem Idris, and Momoh Otuho Abubakar — were arraigned on August 11, 2022, on a nine-count terrorism charge.
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