An aide to the slain leader of the Boko Haram sect, Yusuf Mohammed, and eighteen other alleged terrorists accused of complicity in the United Nations House bombing on August 26, was yesterday, arraigned before a Chief Magistrate Court sitting in Abuja.
The accused persons who were marshalled into the court premises located at Wuse Zone 6, by heavily armed mobile policemen around 12:25pm yesterday, were subsequently remanded in prison custody by presiding Magistrate Azubike Okeagu, who insisted that his court was bereft of the requisite jurisdiction to try the matter.
Magistrate Okeagu who noted that the allegations levelled against the accused persons were outside the jurisdiction of the lower court, said he could only take cognisance of the charge and order the prosecution to take the case to a higher court, though he adjourned the substantive suit till November 3, for further mention.
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