The 42-year- old Hamani Tijani, a suspected cross-border robbery kingpin, died on Sunday after suffering partial stroke for nine
months at the Kirikiri Maximum Prisons in Lagos.
DSP Biyi Jeje, the spokesman for the Nigerian Prisons Service, Lagos
Command, confirmed this.
Jeje said that Tijani died at about 9.00 am in the clinic of the maximum prison.
He said that the service had earlier invited the state officials to
examine Tijani's health in December for possible transfer to another
hospital.
According to him, a team of medical experts were sent
to the prison by the Lagos State Government before Christmas to examine
him, but the outcome of their findings was not made available.
Tijani, a citizen of Niger Republic, was arrested sometimes in
September 2003 in Cotonou, Benin Republic, and moved to Abeokuta, Ogun
State, briefly before he was transferred to Kirikiri.
it was gathered that the deceased spent 11 years in prison custody while his trial was still ongoing before his death.
Tijani was standing trial before Justice Sybil Nwaka of Lagos High
Court on a three-count charge of conspiracy to commit armed robbery,
armed robbery and receiving stolen goods.
The defendant had
through his lawyer, J. H. Bashir, filed a “no case submission’’ and
asked the court to discharge and acquit him for lack of diligent
prosecution.
His request was, however, refused by Justice Nwaka in a ruling delivered on Oct. 23, 2012.
When the matter came up on Jan. 14, 2013, the prosecution was not in court and the case was adjourned till March 12, 2013.
However, the trial was stalled again on the adjourned date as the court did not sit and the case was further adjourned till May 9.
Jeje said that Tijani's corpse had been deposited at the mortuary in
Ikeja General Hospital pending further instruction from the appropriate
authority. (NAN)
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