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Last Updated: Monday, December 13th, 2004 HOME | Previous Page Eight arraigned over murder of five NDLEA officers   By Augustine Madu-West Senior Correspondent, Kano   Eight villagers at Katapila in Kabo Local Government in Kano State where five officers of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) were murdered have been arraigned at the Kano Chief Magistrate’s Court, charged with culpable homicide, punishable with death. They were arraigned on Friday. No date has been fixed for the hearing, while the accused persons were order to be held in prison custody pending the start of trial by Chief Magistrate Sani Ismaila. The Commissioner of Police is suing one Inusa Liti and seven others for their roles in the brutal killing of five officers of the NDLEA in Katapila village. They were said to have attacked the officers under the pretext that they were armed robbers who had come to rob one of the accused persons whose alarm prompted the attack. Five of them and three civilians were hacked to death in the October 28 incidence. The deceased were said to have gone to the village to effect the arrest of a drug suspect when they ran into trouble with the accused persons. The slain officers are: Yakubu Ahmed, Mohammed, Maji Danjuma Isaiah, Hassan Umar A, Sanchi Mikailu, Aina Olayiluola and three others, among who were two informants and a suspect. Eight men were brutally killed in Kabo in an attempt to arrest a drug suspect who was said to have raised alarm, on sighting the officers, saying they are robbers. Acting on the weight of his alarm, some of the villagers and the local vigilante group promptly descended on them with knives, swords and other dangerous weapons killing them in the process. Three of the victims that survived the initial attack, though with severe injuries, were allegedly swooped on by some of the attackers who slaughtered them in the hospital where they were taken by a good Nigerian. The police are investigating the role of some of their top officers in the incident. They have ordered the detention of a divisional police officer and divisional crime officer in connection with the incident. Copyright� 2004. All Rights Reserved. Independent Newspapers Limited Block5, Plot 7D, Wempco Road, Ogba, P.M.B. 21777, Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria. www.independentng.com e-mail: [email protected] Designed By Powered By DNet.

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