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| Federal High Court Jos |
Breaking News: Illegal Mining; FG
withdraws charges against Danchina.
By Lovins Yakubu
November 06, 2018.
The Federal Government on Tuesday withdrew its charges
against Alh. Adamu Abdullahi Usman, alias Dan China.
Adamu was arraigned with 25 others (among who were 16
expatriates) before Justice Musa Kurna of the Federal High Court sitting in Jos
on charges bordering on illegal mining at Kompany Zurak in Wase LGA in February
this year.
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| Abdullahi Usman AKA Danchina at the premises of Federal High Court this afternoon |
When the case file was called, Counsel for Prosecution, V. A.
Joshua told the court that there was an instruction from the Attorney-General
and Minister of Justice to withdraw the amended charges against the accused
persons.
According to counsel,” the matter is slated for hearing but
we have an express instruction this morning from the Hon. Attorney-General and
Minister of Justice, pursuant to section 108 sub-section 1 of the
Administration of Criminal Justice Act (ACJA) to withdraw the amended charge
FHC/J/6c/2018 between the FRN and Alh. Abdullahi Adamu Usman A. K. A. Dan China
and 25 others dated 19th day of February, 2018 and filed on 20th
day of February, 2018. That is our humble application.”
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| Barr Danboyi |
The defence team led by J. B. Danboyi and Gyang Zi did not
object. Consequently, Justice Kurna held thus “from the above section, I see no
reason why the application cannot be granted.
In the absence of objection from the defence, the application
is granted and the case is hereby struck out.”
In view of the development, defence counsel immediately
requested that the all document, including international passports of the
accused persons with the court be released to them and the Judge also granted
the request.
Answering questions from press men after court session, Barr Danboyi said that the implication of this is that the allegation that the accused were involved in illegal mining stands not to be true and it also means that they are free men, particularly the expatriate. according to Counsel, another good thing about the development was that the expatriate now know that there is rule of law in Nigeria.
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