Colonel jibrin bala yakubu biography

Colonel jibrin bala yakubu biography The notice of appeal dated and filed on the 17th August contained four grounds of appeal. Project maintenance. The brief facts of this case were that by a motion on Notice dated 5th July, the 4th respondent in this appeal as the 3rd accused at the lower court prayed the court to decline further adjudication in the trial on the ground of bias or likelihood of bias constituting antagonism to him or favoritism or partiality in favour of the prosecution. Also that the learned Judge descended into the arena of conflict when being informed by the counsel to the appellant during the proceedings of 1st July, that he had a motion to set aside the arraignment of the appellant on the ground of nullity but had not served the State as the prosecution would not accept service in court.

Jibril Bala Yakubu
Governor of Zamfara State

In office
7 October &#;– May
Preceded byRasheed Adisa Raji
(Sokoto State)
Succeeded bySani Yerima

Lt.

Colonel (retired) Jibril Bala Yakubu was the first Administrator of Zamfara State after it was created from part of Sokoto State in October , holding office until the return to democracy in May during the military regimes of Generals Sani Abacha and Abdulsalami Abubakar.[1] As Zamfara administrator, Yakubu created five Emirates in the state and eleven new District Councils.[2] After handing over to the civilian governor Sani Yerima in May , as a former military administrator he was required to retire from the army.[3]

Yakubu was arrested and jailed based on a charge filed on 9 December that alleged that he conspired with four others in to assassinate Alex Ibru, the publisher of The Guardian newspaper.[4] As Commanding Officer of 29 Battalion, he allegedly supplied arms to killer squads who eliminated other opponents of General Sani Abacha.[5] In December a judge refused his request to stop the trial.[6] In April the Arewa Consultative Forum, a Northern lobby group, urged the Federal Government to release Yakubu Jibril on the basis of the spirit of national reconciliation recommended by the Oputa panel.[7]

Eventually, after 12 years of imprisonment, trials and retrials, Yakubu and his co-defendants were acquitted of most charges on 21 December [8] The co-defendants were former Chief Security Officer Hamza al-Mustapha, former Lagos State Police Commissioner James Danbaba and former head of the Aso Rock Anti-Riot Police Rabo Lawal.[9]

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