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BREAKING: House of Reps Majority Leader sent to prison over murder [VIDEO]

A Magistrate’s Court in Kano State on Wednesday remanded Alhassan Doguwa, the Majority Leader of House of Representatives at a correctional facility over charges of culpable homicide and arson.

POLITICS NIGERIA reports that Doguwa appeared before Court 58 of the Magistrate’s Court in Nomansland area of the state metropolis Wednesday evening following his arrest at the Malam Aminu Kano International Airport Tuesday night.

The lawmaker was reportedly involved in a violent confrontation between members of the New Nigeria People Party (NNPP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC) that led to the killing of at least three persons and the burning of a campaign office of the opposition party in the Tudun Wada Local Government Area (LGA) of Kano.

The police said the lawmaker was arrested and charged alongside other accomplices.

He was charged with criminal conspiracy, culpable homicide, causing grievous hurt, and mischief by fire, inciting disturbance.

Watch video of his remand here.

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