A knife wielding man simply identified as Musa Usman, has pleaded guilty to hacking his neighbour, Abubakar Yunusa to death.
Usman, who hails from Sangere community in Yola South Local Government Area, admitted perptrating the heinous crime when arraigned before Chief Magistrate Court 1 in Yola, on Monday.
Already, the presiding judge of the court, Abdullahi Mohammed Digil, has ordered the remand of the defendant until January 11th, 2022, as applied by the prosecutor, Seargent Sawe Nicholas.
However, Magistrate Digil, has ordered the prosecution to complete investigation and transmit case file to the Directorate of Public Prosecution for legal advice.
The defendant and Yunusa, the deceased were said to have had misunderstanding over a goat on Wednesday last week by 7:00pm during which the former used knife in his possession and stabbed the later on his ribs which led to his untimely demise.
According to the prosecutor, the one count charge of culpable homicide contravenes section 191 of penal code law of the state 2018.
"The victim was rushed to the specialist hospital Yola, but was confirmed dead the following day by the medical doctor" added the prosecutor.
Earlier, Sgt Sawe, told the court in First Information Report tendered that it was one Idris Saidu, who reported the incident to the police; hence, the arrest of the defendant.
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