In the judgment delivered by Chief Magistrate Muhammad Jibril, Jamila was acquitted of one count of concealing a kidnap victim for five days, a charge brought against her by the Kano State government.
Chief Magistrate Jibril, who ordered for the immediate release of Jamila from the DSS custody, maintained that the defendant remain discharged and acquitted for no case to answer in the criminal trial of her husband and two others.
Before the court verdict, the prosecution counsel, Barr. Lamido Soron-Dinki applied to discontinue the prosecution of Jamila following substantial evidence that proved her innocent to the charge filed against her.
Barr. Soron-Dinki told the court that the investigation did not only exonerate Jamila but intelligent sources revealed that she (Jamila) does not know the kidnap and subsequent killing of the innocent Hanifa which her husband and two others are presently standing trial.
Jamila, a mother of three, had appeared before Justice Usman Na’aba of Kano High Court as witness to give evidence of how her husband brought the victim to their home. Docked in the witness box with her four months old baby, Jamila told Justice Na’aba how she was deceived by her husband and kept Hanifa in her custody for five days.
“My husband told me that Hanifa’s mother pleaded with him to help take care of her daughter pending when she will return from Abuja. He told me that Hanifa’s mother just secured a job in Saudi Arabia and so she went to Abuja at Saudi Embassy to do the documentation for a visa.
“On the fourth day, I asked my husband where is Hanifa’s mother, but he told me they had a little issue on their way back to Kaduna. On day five in the evening, my husband told me that Hanifa’s mother is back and would be taking her back to their house and that was how Tanko took Hanifa out that night,” Jamila testified before Justice Najiba.
She revealed that the murder of Hanifa only came to her knowledge when the DSS came to arrest her and the husband for an allegation of murder.
