A Kaduna Chief Magistrates’ Court today discharged a 40-year-old herdsman, Mohammed Burtu, charged with receiving a stolen cow. The Magistrate, Mr Ibrahim Emmanuel, discharged Burtu, a resident of Karau-Karau village in Giwa Local Government Area of Kaduna State, for “lack of diligent prosecution’’. At the resumed hearing of the case, the prosecutor, Insp. Musa Abdullahi, asked for an adjournment, to enable him to present the investigating police officer. Emmanuel, however, refused the application, noting that the case had been severally adjourned because of non-availability of prosecution’s witness. The magistrate reminded the prosecutor that at the last sitting, he promised to produce the witness on the next adjourned date. “The case has suffered series of adjournments at the instance of the prosecution. Every person charged with an offence is considered innocent until conviction. It is no longer in the interest of justice to adjourn t...
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