Judge Bello Ishaq handling of the trial of policemen charged with extra judicial killings of six traders in Abuja in 2005 left a dent in Bello’s career as a judge. It took him 12 years to conclude the trial. The delay was a deliberate ploy to help one of the officers charged

with the murder escape justice.
Then his judgment was even more bizarre. At the trial, a witness testified that a senior police officer personally shot at the victims, while also ordering his subordinates to shoot them. In his judgement, Justice Bello convicted the subordinates,

but acquitted the senior officer. He argued that contradictory witness testimony and unavailability of the senior officer’s fingerprints after the arrest made it impossible to establish his culpability. Many who followed the trial felt that that reasoning was strange.

He eventually sentenced two junior policemen to death,although there were no fingerprints of the two either.

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