Court fixes May 8 for judgment in trial of woman supplying ammunition to bandits

Justice Yilwa Hauwa Joseph of the Abuja Federal High Court has fixed May 8 for judgement successful coercion charges filed by the Department of the State Service DSS against Halima Haliru Umar, a pistillate accused of supplying ammunition to bandits.

The justice fixed the day connected Wednesday astatine the reappraisal of proceedings of facts connected the admittance of guilt by the accused person.

At Wednesday’s proceedings, a DSS operative and archetypal prosecution witness, Fahad Tahir, narrated to the tribunal however the Katsina housewife was connected July 6, 2025 apprehended by DSS operatives with 302 rounds of AK-47 firearm unrecorded ammunition and N57,100 currency portion being transported to a radical of bandits successful Plateau State.

Upon arrest, the witnesser said that the accused idiosyncratic made a connection successful Hausa connection astatine the Plateau Command bureau of the DSS, admitting that 1 Alhaji Sani sent her to Zaria successful Kaduna State to procure the ammunition from different person.

Tahir said the accused idiosyncratic was connected August 11, 2025 subsequently moved from Plateau State to the Abuja nationalist office of the DSS, wherever the 2nd circular of interrogation was conducted.

The DSS operative explained that successful the beingness of a lawyer from the Legal Aid Council, the accused idiosyncratic made different connection successful Hausa language, wherever she besides admitted her apprehension with the ammunition and the N57,100 cash....