An? Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), Kabiru Dandibi,on Thursday, told a Federal High Court in Abuja, that the police rescued about 400 people injured in the uprising of July 30, 2009; the day the late leader of the dreaded Boko Haram Islamic Sect, Mallam Mohammed Yusuf, was allegedly killed.
Dandibi, who is the fourth prosecution witness in the on-going trial of the five police officers alleged to have been responsible for the killing of the leader of the Islamic sect ,said he was in the office on the day the late Yusuf was driven to Borno State Police Command by the first, second and third accused persons in the matter.
Attempts by the witness, who was then the ACP in charge of Criminal Investigation Department of Borno State Police Command to tender mortuary register to show that the remains of the late Islamic leader was deposited in the morgue, however met with stiff objection by the defence lawyers.
The lawyers had claimed that the document did not meet the requirements of the Evidence Act. The case has been adjourned till February 13, 2012.