Ummita: Chinese Counsel, Kano Government Disagree Over Evidence (DETAILS)

The defense counsel in the ongoing trial of Ummukulsum Sani Buhari (Ummita), who is accused of being murdered by her Chinese lover, Frank Geng Quarong, has disagreed with the prosecution counsel on the evidence presented in court.

The defence counsel, Barrister Muhammad Dan-Azumi, said at the resumed hearing before a Kano High Court on Wednesday that the evidence tendered as verbal autopsy certifying the death of the victim by Murtala Muhammad Specialist Hospital in Kano, which the court admitted as exhibit D, was questionable in its entirety.

He claimed that the document was not the original copy of the report and that it arrived 90 days after the incident.

He stated that he had attempted to obtain the document previously, but had received no response from the hospital as of yet.

Earlier, the court began hearing the last prosecution witness, Aminu Halilu, a police constable assigned to the Dorayi Babba Police Division.

He described the incident, the police involvement in the case, hospital certification, and the release of the body for burial.

Halilu went on to say that after handing over the body, he returned to the station and took the suspect’s statement.

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He said, “I came back to the police station where I met Mr Frank. I asked him to invite his relatives but he said they are in China but he will call a friend who worked at BBY Textile company and he (the dependent) called him through the phone but he did not come up for a few hours.

“Later on, he permitted me to take his statement in the presence of his relatives. He started narrating what happened between them (he and the victim) from the day they met in 2019 up to 16th September, 2022.

“After, I read to him and he understood, he signed. I took him to my superior, Saifullahi Bello, where he read the statement to him and he accepted what he read to him that was recorded is true.”

He went on to say that he took the statements of the two witnesses, Fatima Zubairu and Mustapha, and then went to the crime scene in Kano’s Janbulo quarters.

The police officer stated that the following day, he compiled the case diary and the exhibit (a sharp knife) and transferred the case to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) for further investigation.

The prosecution team, led by the state Director of Public Prosecutions, Aisha Muhammad, had previously submitted the suspect’s statement, which the court accepted as Exhibit C.

While the police officer agreed to the statement, the defendant denied and objected, claiming that he was forced to make the statement, threatened, and pushed into a handcuffed cell.

The defense counsel requested a trial within a trial, but the judge, Justice Sanusi Ado Ma’aji, argued that it was prohibited by the Administration of Criminal Justice Law, citing Section 38 (7) of the ACJL, and thus admitting the statement as Exhibit C.

The judge then adjourned the case until December 23, 2023, after concluding the prosecution counsel’s hearing.

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