Police saves wife's murderer from angry mob

Tamale (Northern Region), 16 Feb. '99 -

Forty-one year-old driver Abdul Rahman Ziblim standing trial at the Tamale community tribunal for murdering his wife was yesterday whisked away from the court premises by the police to save him from a mob attack. It took the police a hectic time to control the hundreds of people who booed and jeered at the accused before he was driven away in a police van after being remanded for one week in prison custody to re- appear, on a provisional murder charge. Ziblim was arrested three weeks ago for beating his 28 year-old pregnant wife, Fati Abdulaah to death. His plea was not taken. The chairman of the tribunal, Mr Mohammed Nabon had earlier declined an application for the adjournment of the case by the police prosecutor Sergeant Ben Agbedanu on the grounds that the accused was sick. The tribunal however agreed to the adjournment when Ziblim

was produced in court and he confirmed that he had diarrhoea. Mr Nabon said the case has attracted so much public attention that it was in the interest of the accused to be remanded in custody. "You have become an object for people to gaze at due to what you have done", he told the accused.