Cross-border Robber Kingpin, Hamani Tijani diesin prison at 42

Hamani Tijani

Nigerian Prisons Service, Lagos Command has announced the death of Cross-border Robber  Kingpin, Hamani Tijani. He died at 42.

 

According to the Spokesman for the command, DSP Biyi Jeje died on Sunday after suffering partial stroke for nine months at the Kirikiri Maximum Prisons, Lagos State.

 

Hamani Tijani, a suspected cross-border robbery kingpin  has been receiving treatment at Prison Hospital in the last nine months before his death

 

Tijani, a citizen of Niger Republic, was arrested in September 2003 in Cotonou, Benin Republic, and moved to Abeokuta, Ogun State, briefly before he was transferred to Kirikiri.

 According to NAN, the deceased spent 11 years in prison custody while his trial was still ongoing before his death.

Tijani was standing trial before Justice Sybil Nwaka of Lagos High Court on  three counts of conspiracy to commit armed robbery, armed robbery and receiving stolen goods.

The defendant had through his lawyer, J. H. Bashir, filed a “no case submission’’ and asked the court to discharge and acquit him for lack of diligent prosecution.

 

Jeje told NAN that Tijani’s corpse had been deposited at the mortuary in the Ikeja General Hospital for autopsy report.