A plan to test the potency of a charm has gone way-wrong after a friend killed another in the process.
A man named Hassan Mohammed is standing trial for murder after he shot dead his friend with a dane gun while trying out the potency of 'anti-gun' charms.
The dead man identified as Lukman Alhaji Umaru had finished applying the medicine before asking his friend to test if the charm is effective. It was in the process of finding out the efficacy of the charm, he was shot dead as the charm failed.
According to the police, the deceased and his friend had assembled in the house of one Yahaya Halidu and were having breakfast when the incident happened.
The Assistant Inspector General of Police, AIG, Tunde Ogunsakin who confirmed the incident, said the deceased who claimed he had anti-gun charms, went to his house and brought assorted charms and a Dane gun and requested Mohammed to shoot him with the gun claiming that it would not harm him, but when Mohammed aimed at the deceased and fired at his head with the gun, he fell and died.
Meanwhile, Justice Wakkil adjourned the case till December 4 to enable Yahaya Halidu in whose house the incident happened, to testify before the court.