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General News of Thursday, 1 December 2022

Source: www.mynigeria.com

Aisha Buhari to testify against university student who defamed her

A collage of   Aminu Adamu and Mrs Buhari A collage of Aminu Adamu and Mrs Buhari

First Lady, Aisha Buhari will testify against Aminu Adamu, the student of Federal University, Dutse, Jigawa State who allegedly defamed her.

The 24-year-old is alleged to have published a defamatory statement on his Twitter handle against Mrs Buhari.

According to reports, Mr. Adamu who is a final year student is reported to have posted a rotund picture of the first lady with a caption in Hausa saying, “Mama is feeding fat on poor people’s money.”

Despite being posted on June 8, Mr Adamu was trailed by detectives and arrested in Dutse on November 18 before he was taken to Abuja.

After nearly two weeks in detention, Mr Adamu was arraigned on Tuesday before a judge, Yusuf Halilu, of the Federal Capital Territory High Court at Maitama, where he pleaded not guilty and was remanded at Suleja prison in Niger State.

In the one-count charge marked: CR/89/2022, and dated 23 November, the police say Mr Adamu “between May and June 2022 within the jurisdiction of this court, did intentionally open a Twitter handle with the name …Catalyst and screenshot the photograph of her Excellency Hajia Aisha Buhari and wrote on it in Hausa language… roughly translated to English language to mean ‘Mama has embezzled monies meant for the poor to satisfaction’ and posted same on your above Twitter handle.. knowing same to be false and capable of affecting her reputation.”

The police said the alleged offence bordering on defamation and cyberstalking, contravened Section 391 of the Penal Code, according to Premium Times.

In a list of witnesses attached to the proof of evidence filed by the police, seen by Premium Times on Wednesday night, Mrs Buhari, the nominal complainant, is one of the five witnesses assembled by the prosecution to establish the case against Mr Adamu.

Another witness is Festus Jossiah, one of the investigators that tracked and arrested the defendant.

Abdulsalam Zakari, Yahaya Njayo and Haliru Tahir, all police officers, are the other proposed prosecution witnesses lined up against the defendant.

Court filings signed by James Idachaba, a lawyer at the FCT police legal department in Abuja, listed Mr Adamu’s statement, a print out of the alleged defamatory post and an IPhone belonging to the defendant, as exhibits.

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