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Justice Rabi Talatu Umar at Jama’are custodial centre
By Baba Shehu, Bauchi
Bauchi State Chief Judge, Justice Rabi Talatu Umar has directed for the mental evaluation of a graduate of the University of Maiduguri, Buhari Sani who studied Mining and Geology and graduated in 2020.
But on 18 October, 2022, Buhari found himself at the Medium Security Custodial Centre, Jama’are in Bauchi state charged with insult, criminal intimidation and theft.
He was said to have insulted his uncle in Jama’are, under what was described as influence of drugs, frightened some family members, and removed a belonging of one of them.
Justice Rabi Talatu Umar regrettably wondered how Buhari’s uncle shouldered or bored his educational responsibilities right from primary school to the University only to turned back and become recalcitrant to him.
The Chief Judge therefore directed officials of the custodial centre to liaise with Buhari’s family members and Department of Social Welfare of Jama’are Local Government Council with a view to take Buhari to a Psychiatric Hospital for mental and physical evaluation.
Buhari, who was in 2021 posted to Imo state for his National Youth Service Scheme (NYSC) may probably have absconded the service year vividly attributable to drugs influence as he was unable to collect his discharge certificate at the time of this incident on 18th October, 2022.
Pressed by the Chief Judge as to why Buhari could not collect his NYSC discharge certificate, Buhari attributed it to collaboration between his family members and the Vice Chancellor of his University (UNIMAID).
Justice Rabi said, “NYSC discharge certificate is being personally collected by an institution’s graduate, and not by any proxy, hence Buhari’s inability to collect his certificate might have default in the service year.
She explained that Buhari’s mental evaluation at the psychiatric hospital would determine the level of his drugs addiction and eventually admit him for treatment.
The Chief Judge counseled Buhari’s family members, particularly his mother who is in existence to exercise restraints on her son for he would gradually be cured at the hospital and would one day become useful to himself and the society.
Justice Rabi Talatu Umar has during her cases review visit of Awaiting Trial Persons (ATP) at the Jama’are Medium Custodian Centre released two persons and granted bail to one other.
