The court had commenced sitting on the case at about 9am for the continuation of hearing as one of the prosecution witnesses, Hitila Hassan, continued to give his evidence-in-chief and was cross-examined by the defence counsel, Mathias Emeribe.At some minutes past 2:00pm, the presiding Judge, Justice Halimat Salman said “reports reaching us are not favourable for the continuation of the case today. I don’t have anything doing but the court had to rise for the case to continue tomorrow.
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