The Chairman of Buruku Local Government
Area of Benue State, David Yiman, has
been remanded in prison custody by a
Chief Magistrate Court 1, sitting in
Makurdi.
Yiman who was inaugurated by the state
governor, Samuel Ortom, alongside 23 others on
October 11, 2016, was remanded in prison in
connection with the murder » of a 50-year-old
lecturer of Political Science of the University of
Mkar, Dr. Aondosoo Wilfred Tondo, in August.
Remanded with the LG boss were Kosuvenyi
Kungwa and Emmanuel Nyajo , for the same
offense.
According to the First Information Report
obtained from the court, the suspects were
fingered in the brutal murder » of the lecturer
following some political differences.
The report reads in part:
'During police investigation, one Kosuvenyi
Kungwa, Emmanuel Nyajo and Honourable David
Yiman, all males, were arrested for conspiring with
many others now at large to commit the crime.'
At the mention of the case, no plea was taken
for want of jurisdiction while the prosecuting
police officer, Hyacinth Mbakwor , told the court
that investigation was still in progress and asked
for another date »
While ruling on the matter, Chief Magistrate
Isaac Ajim ordered that the accused be
remanded in Federal Minimum Prisons, Makurdi,
while the case was adjourned to January 23,
2017, for further hearing.