The three radio journalists arrested and detained by Kano police for alleged incitement resulting in the Death of nine female health workers were Yesterday charged to court by the Police<\/p>\n
They are Suleiman Gama, Yakubu Musa and Malam Mubarak, all of Wazobia FM Radio.<\/p>\n
In his presentation during the arraignment the prosecutor,sergeant\u00a0 Sadiq Na”Abba said the charges includes,criminal\u00a0 conspiracy, abetment, inciting disturbances,intentional insult,obstruction of public servant in discharge of public function.<\/p>\n
Others are Deformations of character and injurious falsehood contrary\u00a0 to sections 97,85,114,399,148,392 and 393 (1) of the penal code law.<\/p>\n
They were said to conspired and to aired a programme discrediting the polio immunization programme,defamed the character,reputation and personality and insulted the district head of Tarauni.<\/p>\n
According to the first information report of the case obtained by Radio Nigeria in Kano,this is meant at instigating the public against the immunization programme which resulted to the attacked and killings of Nine immunization personnel.at Filin Cashew and Hayen Hotoro.<\/p>\n
However in his submission counsel to the accused persons\u00a0 Musa Adamu Aliyu,applied for bail for the accused persons,which was rejected by the prosecutor.<\/p>\n
In his rulings Chief Magistrate Ibrahim Bello ordered that the three accused persons be remanded in police custody until the 14 of this month when he would ruled on the issue of bail application for the accused.<\/p>\n
The Presiding magistrate also ordered the Police to allow the accused unconditional access to their families and lawyers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The three radio journalists arrested and detained by Kano police for alleged incitement resulting in the Death of nine female health workers were Yesterday charged to court by the Police…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n