YOLA COURT REMANDS 5 FOR ROBBING 16 AT SANGERE FUTY

The Chief Magistrate Court I in Yola, Adamawa state on Thursday, remanded 5 persons in prison custody for alleged armed robbery.

The court presided by Magistrate Alheri Ishaku, remanded the defendants and adjourned the case to the 18th April, 2023, to await advice from DPP.

The defendants including Adamu Hamza, 22, Auwal Yakubu, 18, Faisal Mahmud, 19, Ahmed Aliyu, 21 and Ismail Magaji, 21 of different addresses pleaded not guilty to the offences.

They were remanded over alleged criminal conspiracy, armed robbery and voluntary causing of hurt contrary to sections 60, 287 and 219 of the penal code law.

Arraigning the defendants, the prosecutor, Inspector S.S Nicholas, alleged in First Information Report that the 5 defendants were arrested in connection to alleged offences at Sangere Futy in Girei LGA.

According to him, the defendants who armed themselves with knives, cutlasses and sticks attacked as well as robbed their victims at various houses on the 14th and 18th March, 2023.

The prosecutor narrated that the defendants robbed their victims of their valuables such as mobile phones, cash, laptops, television sets, ATM cards, Mp3 players and bluetooth worth N1.3 million.

The prosecutor applied that the matter be adjourned to enable the prosecution transmit case file to DPP for vetting  where his application was granted.