ELDEST son of the slain assistant director of the State Security Service (SSS) who allegedly murdered his father, mother and three siblings and confessed to the crime yesterday pleaded not guilty to murder charges in a Kano court.
Bello Garba Bello earlier confessed to the police, the SSS and journalists that he was behind the murders.
Standing before a Kano Chief Magistrate’s Court sitting at Gidan Murtala, he pleaded not guilty to the charges when the content of the police’s First Information Report (FIR) was read to him.
Chief Magistrate Khadijah Dahiru Mustapher ordered that the sobbing Bello be unchained and implored him to stop crying and raise his voice.
However, Principal State Counsel Isa Yusuf told the court that the case could not be tried by a magistrate’s court but by a high court. As such, the prosecutor said he had two applications. “I apply for an order of this honourable court to direct the state commissioner of police to send the original case diary to the Attorney General of Kano State for legal advice as to whether he would prefer a charge against the accused or not,” he told the court.
The prosecutor also applied for an order of the court remanding the accused person in prison custody pending the outcome of the advice of the Attorney General of the state. He submitted to the court that his application was brought under Section 147 of the 1999 Criminal Procedure Code (CPC) law of Kano State as amended.
The magistrate therefore granted the two applications, thereby ordering the registrar of the court to write to the commissioner of police to send the original case diary to the Attorney General of the state. The court then ordered for the remand of the accused person in prison custody till October 7 for mention
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