Kano Government Has Taken Over Murder Case Filed Against APC Majority Leader, Doguwa – Nigerian Police

 

The Nigeria Police Force, Kano State Command said it has handed over the case file on the alleged murder case involving the House of Representatives Majority Leader Hon. Alhassan Ado Doguwa to the Kano State government.

 

 Recall that Doguwa was accused of killing some members of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) in Tudun Wada Local Government Area of the state during the February 25, 2023, Presidential/National Assembly elections.

The National Chairman of the NNPP, Prof. Rufai Alkali, had called on the police authorities to prosecute the lawmaker immediately, but reacting to the call, the Kano State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa, on Monday said that the call is belated as the police have handed over the case file to the state counsel.

Alkali had expressed regret that Doguwa who was allegedly seen on a viral video with a

shotgun, shooting at NNPP supporters and instigating attacks on the party’s facility in Kano state “is still walking the street as a free man.”

According to the NNPP National Chairman, the Nigeria Police is carrying on its activities as if “human lives don’t matter anymore in the country.”

Leadership reports that the police spokesperson dismissed Alkali’s accusations of the police’s inaction in handling the case.

He insisted that the case was now with the State Counsel, not with the police.

The PPRO noted that “After legal advice, the case has already been charged to Court, and the case file was also handed over to them,” adding that “Those of you in Kano are much aware of the case and the happenings in the court. The case is no longer with the Police. The State Counsel has taken over the prosecution from the police.”