The Kano High Court on Friday ordered the Kano State Government to summon PC Aminu Halilu and Ummulkulsum’s mother, Fatima Zubairu, for cross-examination in a 47-year-old Chinese man named Frank Geng-Quangrong’s alleged murder case.
Frank, a resident of Railway Quarters in Kano’s Janbulo Quarters Gwale Local Government Area, was charged with culpable murder on September 16.
Ummulkulsum, 22, was allegedly stabbed by the defendant in Kano’s Janbulo neighbourhood.
Muhammed Dan’azumi, the defence attorney, requested that Halilu and Ummulkulsum’s mother be called back into court so that they can be re-cross-examined in accordance with section 258 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Law (ACJL).
According to the ACJL, “the court may at any stage of the trial invite or recall witnesses to cross-examine them if they are deemed essential to the justice.”
Dan’azumi has additionally requested that the Chief Medical Officer or Director of the Murtala Muhammed Specialist Hospital appear in court.
He asked the court to heed his requests.
The prosecution’s attorney, Ibrahim Arif-Garba, did not protest and granted his request.
After hearing from both parties, Justice Sanusi Ado-Ma’aji, the presiding judge, accepted his requests to summon witnesses and the Chief Medical Officer or Director of the Murtala Muhammed Specialist Hospital to appear before the court.
The case was postponed to January 11 and January 12 for the defence.
