Crimes

Reps Leader Doguwa sent to prison over election killings

A Magistrate’s Court sitting in Kano has remanded the Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, Alhassan Ado Doguwa, in a correctional centre over charges of culpable homicide and arson arising from the killings in the February 25 National Assembly elections in the state.

Doguwa was arraigned before the magistrate, Ibrahim Mansur Yola, on Wednesday evening following his arrest at the Malam Aminu Kano International Airport in Kano on Tuesday night.

The Kano State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Haruna Kiyawa, disclosed that the federal lawmaker was arrested in connection with a suspected case of criminal conspiracy, culpable homicide, causing grievous hurt, mischief by fire, and inciting disturbance.

Kiywa said Doguwa’s arrest followed complaints “received on the gruesome murder of three persons, causing grievous injury to eight others in Tudun Wada LGA on 26/02/2023 while the collation of election results was ongoing and an alleged viral video of some victims with suspected gunshots in the social media.”

He said the Commissioner of Police in charge of the 2023 general election, Kano State Command, Muhammad Yakubu, directed the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) in Kano to carry out a thorough investigation into the incident.

Kiyawa said Doguwa was arrested after he refused to honour an invitation extended to him by the police.

The magistrate, however, ordered the remand of the federal lawmaker and adjourned the matter to March 7.

The Star