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Nigerian Student Sent To Jail For Criticising Lawmaker On Facebook by Horladipupo0505: 8:54pm On Nov 20, 2019 |
A magistrate court in Kano
has remanded a student of
Bayero University Kano over
a Facebook post criticising a
state lawmaker.
Yahuza Tijjani, a second-year
student in the Department of
Science and Technology
Education, has been held
since September 30 after he
was arrested by the police in
Madobi Local Government
Area, his brother, Murtala
Tijjani, told PREMIUM TIMES.
Mr Tijjani said his younger
brother spent seven days at
the Police ‘Zone 1’ regional
headquarters in Kano and
the state criminal
investigation department
before he was sent to jail by
the magistrate.
The lawmaker, Kabiru
Is’mail, and the Tijjanis are
natives of Madobi Local
Government Area. A group
loyal to the lawmaker had
earlier attacked the student,
Mr Tijjani, on Facebook, the
brother said.
“We are more concerned that
the student may be expelled
from the university for
missing the whole semester
examination while being in
jail,” he said. “We fear that
he would continue being in
jail as we have exhausted
seeing all the personalities
we know yet we cannot
secure his released.”
In the Facebook post seen by
PREMIUM TIMES, Mr Tijjani,
in an apparent reference to
the lawmaker who he did not
mention by name, said in
Hausa, “You know he’s not
well educated, as a result of
which he doesn’t know how
to calculate figures. He said
1230, he later said 1500 and
at the ended saying 2000.”
In another post, Mr Tijjani said, “I pray
to God almighty that the election petition
tribunal [will] declare the election of
state’s assembly member representing
Madobi as inconclusive”.
The Court
The brother also narrated how Mr Tijjani
was denied bail and sent to jail on day
one after he was charged with
defamation of character before the
magistrate, Aminu Gabari of Court 72 in
Noman’s Land in Fagge local
government area.
He said a week later the judge granted
Mr Tijjani bail on strict conditions they
were unable to meet.
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“Whenever the judge slated time for the
case, he wouldn’t come, this makes us
suspicious that the judiciary, the last
hope for Mr Tijjani has been
compromised,” he said. “The last time
we saw the judge he told us that the case
has been transferred to the office of the
state’s chief judge; there’s nothing he
can do about it. We rushed to the
Ministry of Justice to see the chief judge;
we were denied access to him.”
When contacted, the lawmaker
representing Madobi state constituency,
Kabiru Isma’il, told PREMIUM TIMES
Tuesday that the student offended him
through the Facebook post and he
reported the matter to the authorities.
He said no human would allow the
offender to walk free without taking
appropriate measures.
“I was offended, instead of taking the
law into my hand, I decided to invite the
police because I don’t have the power to
arrest,” Mr Isma’il said. |
Re: Nigerian Student Sent To Jail For Criticising Lawmaker On Facebook by Omonken: 9:21pm On Nov 20, 2019 |
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