A presiding magistrate at Court 34, Rijiyar Zaki, Kano, Aminu Usman, popularly known among lawyers as ‘Dino’ has been committed to state high court library after been indicted in a number of petitions written against him.
Judicialsketch.com confirmed that the chief judge of Kano State, Justice Nura Sagir, made this decision as a temporary measure to relieve Dino of his magisterial powers pending the completion of investigations into allegations of corruption, high-handedness and disregard for law leveled against him.
The state public complaints and anti-corruption commission (PCACC) had launched an investigation into the activities of the magistrate after he sent a certain scholar to prison on a flimsy excuse in total disregard for the right of the person. The scholar wrote a petition to the commission.
Lawyers in Kano said Dino was notorious for..
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