The Niger State Command of the Division of State Providers (DSS) has secured conviction of 1 Usman Abubakar following his arraignment earlier than the Minna Chief Justice of the Peace Courtroom quantity One on Wednesday, third. January over allegation of unlawful possession of an automated pump motion gun and 4 dwell cartridges.
The defendant was delivered to the court docket amidst tight safety by the Operatives of the Secret Police and arraigned by Malam Abdulmalik Sani, the top of the Authorized unit of the Command.
The First Data Report (FIR) made out there in Courtroom by the top of the Authorized unit and obtained by Tribune On-line, disclosed that the defendant was arraigned on one rely cost of being in possession of Magnum pump motion rifle with out lawful authority.
The cost sheet marked MN/02/2024 reads in elements: “That you simply Usman Abubakar, grownup, male, Bororo of Beji city, in Bosso Native Authorities Space of Niger State, that on twelfth December,2023 at Paiko, inside the jurisdiction of this court docket, dedicated a prison act to wit: you had in your possession with out lawful authority two (2) magnum pump motion rifles with registration numbers 18-0223 and 18-0254 respectively opposite to part 9 (1) and (2) and punishable below part 27 (I) (b) (111) of the firearms Act Cap F28.”
The Authorized Officer instructed the court docket that the defendant was arrested by a joint patrol group alongside Minna-Paiko street with the gun hid in a bag alongside together with his brother who escaped arrest and he’s presently on the run.
He additional knowledgeable the Courtroom that the defendant had allegedly confessed throughout interrogation that he purchased the gun from one Toto, in Nasarawa State on the fee of N600, 000.00 for self- defence, on account of the incessant armed banditry assaults on their group.
The Presiding Chief Justice of the Peace, Hajiya Umma Mohammed, took the plea of the defendant, who pleaded for leniency that he purchased the gun to defend himself on account of the actions of armed bandits, praying/begging the court docket to mood justice with mercy.
Nonetheless, the Presiding Chief Justice of the Peace convicted him and reserved the sentence until the seventeenth of January.