A MAGISTRATE’S Court in Kano Thursday granted bail to two
Wazobia FM reporters, Yakubu Musa and Mubarak Mohammed Sani, and a
former Executive Secretary of Kano State Censorship Board, Abubakar Rabo
Abdulkarim, who had been arraigned on Tuesday on alleged criminal
conspiracy, inciting disturbance, intentional insult, obstruction,
defamation of character and injurious falsehood, contrary to Sections
97, 85, 114, 399, 148, 392, and 393 of the Penal Code.
All the accused persons however had pleaded not guilty to the charges.
At the resumed hearing Thursday, Senior Magistrate Ibrahim Bello Muhammed granted them bail to the sum of N100,000 each and two sureties for each accused person, one of who must be a community leader or head of the organisation in which the accused person is working.
The three were seized by the Kano State Police Command on Sunday for allegedly airing a programme on Wazobia FM that condemned polio vaccination in the state and defaming the character of the District Head of Tarauni in Tarauni Local Council of the state, the Dangoroban Kano, Ado Kurawa.
The matter began when Sani had a misunderstanding with the traditional ruler over polio vaccination at Abubakar Rabo’s house, which later degenerated when the producer of the programme, Yakubu, raised the matter on his “Sandar Girma” a popular vernacular programme, which the police considered derogatory and defamatory to the district head and inimical to the polio immunisation exercise.
The case took a turn for the worse and dominated public discourse following the shooting to death of nine female polio vaccinators three days after the airing of the controversial programme.
All the accused persons however had pleaded not guilty to the charges.
At the resumed hearing Thursday, Senior Magistrate Ibrahim Bello Muhammed granted them bail to the sum of N100,000 each and two sureties for each accused person, one of who must be a community leader or head of the organisation in which the accused person is working.
The three were seized by the Kano State Police Command on Sunday for allegedly airing a programme on Wazobia FM that condemned polio vaccination in the state and defaming the character of the District Head of Tarauni in Tarauni Local Council of the state, the Dangoroban Kano, Ado Kurawa.
The matter began when Sani had a misunderstanding with the traditional ruler over polio vaccination at Abubakar Rabo’s house, which later degenerated when the producer of the programme, Yakubu, raised the matter on his “Sandar Girma” a popular vernacular programme, which the police considered derogatory and defamatory to the district head and inimical to the polio immunisation exercise.
The case took a turn for the worse and dominated public discourse following the shooting to death of nine female polio vaccinators three days after the airing of the controversial programme.
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