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A Federal High Court sitting in Kaduna has ordered the police authorities to pay a cumulative sum of N300 million to the parents of three Shiite members killed by its officers while on an Islamic procession in 2022 in Zaria.
They alleged that on August 8, 2022, the officers of the Nigerian Police shot and killed Jafar Magaji, Aliyu Lawal and Muhsin Badamasi while observing their religious act of worship; Ashura Procession in Zaria City.
The judgment in favour of the Shiites was delivered by Justice Hawa Buhari in Kaduna, the Kaduna State capital.
Ahmadu Bello University’s College of Agriculture and Animal Science (CAAS), Mando, Kaduna, has lamented non-adherence to the court order stopping the