Court jails lady caught with 500 dwell ammunition in Kaduna

High Court of Kaduna has convicted and sentenced a girl, Aisha Abubakar, who was arrested with 500 rounds of dwell AK-47 ammunition meant for bandits in Katsina, to 5 years’ imprisonment.

Justice John Ambi, in a judgment delivered on fifteenth October, 2026, held that Aisha was responsible of illegal possession of a weapon, opposite to Section 393 of the Kaduna State Penal Code Law, 2017.

In the Certified True Copy (CTC) of the judgment, signed by the decide on October 19, 2026 and made out there to newsmen on Monday, October 26, 2026 in Abuja, the decide held that no matter Aisha’s plea for mercy, the court docket can’t ignore the devastating impression of insecurity within the nation.

Justice Ambi expressed concern in regards to the hurt and havoc that the five hundred rounds of dwell ammunition would have inflicted on the lives of Nigerians if the defendant was not apprehended.

In a ultimate written handle, dated fifteenth May, 2026, counsel to the defendant, Victor Fredrick, raised a lone situation for willpower, which is whether or not, with the totality of the proof adduced by the prosecution, it had been in a position to show its case past cheap doubt to warrant the conviction and sentence of the defendant.

The prosecution’s counsel, Emmanuel Ekpenyong, a personal authorized practitioner of the legislation agency of Fred-Young & Evans LP who prosecuted the case pursuant to the fiat of the Attorney-General of Kaduna State, filed a ultimate written handle dated eighth June, 2026.

He requested whether or not the absence of Inspector Abu Sarki on the trial affected the admissibility of the defendant’s extra-judicial assertion (Exhibit P4).

The lawyer requested whether or not Aisha’s protest in opposition to the recording of Exhibit P4, having did not object when the doc was tendered and admitted in proof, affected the burden to be connected to it.

“Whether the proof earlier than the court docket established the offence of illegal possession of a weapon in opposition to the Defendant past cheap doubt?

“Whether the court docket may convict on the idea of the unchallenged and uncontroverted proof of the prosecution?” Ekpenyong requested.

Selivering the judgment, Justice Ambi mentioned he took into consideration the plea of the defendant in allocutus in addition to the submission of each counsel.

“That mentioned, I hereby sentence the defendant to 5 years’ imprisonment for the offence of illegal possession of weapon opposite to Section 393 of the Kaduna State Penal Code Law, 2017,” he dominated.

He ordered that the sentence shall begin from the date of her detention primarily based on the remand order.