A Magistrate Court in Kano on Tuesday remanded two journalists and one other person for allegedly making comments on radio that incited the killing of nine vaccinators in the state.

Chief Magistrate Ibrahim Bello of Magistrate Court 17 Gyadi-Gadi ordered for the continued detention of Yakubu Musa Fagge, Mubarak Muhammad Sani of Wazobia FM and the other person Abubakar Rabo Abdulkarim.

The defendants pleaded not guilty to all the charges, while their defence counsel, Musa Adamu Aliyu applied for their bail, citing relevant sections of the constitution and other cases.

According to the prosecutor, the journalists allegedly made comments on radio which “show that polio immunisations were an anti-Islam western conspiracy to cause infertility in women.”

The statement was allegedly made on Hausa Programme Sandar Girma two days before the nine female workers administering the polio immunization vaccines were killed.

The vaccinators were shot dead in two separate attacks.