Court Remands FCT Couple Over Illegal Structures, Assault Of NSCDC Officer

Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Mobile Magistrate Court has remanded Binta Dahiru, 33, and her husband Dahiru Musa, 37 in Kuje Prison for erecting an illegal structure in violation of section 35 (1).

They are also being prosecuted for obstruction contrary to section 36 (2) of the Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB) Act No 10, 1997.

The prosecutor Barr. Eze E. Eze, while arraigning the plaintiffs before Magistrate Musa Jobbo, said the couple’s action contravened Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB) Act No 10, 1997.

Binta Dahiru, during her trial, feigned ignorance of biting the Niger Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) officer during Wednesday’s clean-up of illegal structures in Katampe Extension, Abuja, by the FCT task force team led by the senior special assistant to FCT Minister on Monitoring, Inspection and Enforcement, Comrade Ikharo Attah, and later admitted to the crime.

Admitting them on bail, Justice Jobbo told the plaintiffs Binta and Musa to pay N100,000 each and with a surety or be remanded in prison on failure to meet the bail conditions.

Attah, who reacted to the ruling, said it would be a deterrent to others fond of attacking uniform personnel.

“For us, in FCTA it is a very encouraging one, we thank the officers for being very civil, despite the attack they didn’t fire the woman that chopped off the flesh of the NSCDC officer.

“Whatever it is the verdict has been given by the Judge and we are obliged to comply by judgment, we hope it will serve as a deterrent to others who believe they can assault men in uniform and go scot-free. We will continue to be civil and obey human rights and we hope the public will understand that,” he said.

Last Wednesday, while FCT taskforce was on a cleanup in Katampe Extension, one of the NSCDC officers was assaulted and her flesh was bitten off by the housewife in collaboration with the husband, and one of the owners of shanties.

The woman bit off the flesh of the officer and swallowed it immediately,  when the officer was trying to control her, while she was being aggressive.