SAFAR 21 1431 A.H.
FRIDAY FEBRUARY 5, 2010.
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4 docked for selling ‘Obasanjo’ chickens
By NASIRU MUHAMMAD
FOUR persons who were accused of selling chickens purportedly from the former President Obasanjo’s farms were yesterday, arraigned before a Kano Magistrate Court.
The accused who include one Alhaji Abdulkareem Abdullahi, Toyosi Oluwole, Falowo Banjo and Dr. Emmanuel Olajunwan, were jointly accused of criminal conspiracy, abetment and using a false property mark contrary to Section 396,83 and 373 of the Penal Code Law.
According to the Police First Information Report (FIR), one Falana Victor who is the zonal manager of the farms reported to the Farm Centre Police Division on the 19th of January, 2010 that he found the first accused person, Alhaji Abdulkareem Abdallah on the same day selling different types of chicks in cartons that were purported to be from the farms.
The FIR explained that about 20 cartons, with 1000 pieces of day-old broiler chicks valued at N450,000 were found with the first accused as exhibits, and he voluntarily confessed that it was one Toyosi Oluwole (the second accused person) who supplied him with the said products marked with the name of Obasanjo farms Ibadan, Oyo state branch office.
Meanwhile, two other persons who were accused in the case, namely, Alhaja Bello and one Bode whose surnames were yet to be known, are now at large.
The accused persons who denied committing the offence were later granted bail by the presiding judge, Chief Magistrate Abdullhi Muhammad Dawakiji, on the sum of N100,000 each with two reliable sureties, one of whom must be a community leader and a resident of Kano.
Before the bail was granted, the prosecutor of the court, Sergent Authony Edward, had objected to the bail application because the police is yet to finish its investigation in the case.
