A 22 year old notorious "Shila" boy, Gaddafi Musa, was on Tuesday, convicted and sentenced to 8 years in prison without option of fine for the offence of extortion.
Gaddafi, bagged the prison term after he was tried and found guilty for the offence which contravened section 285 of the state penal code law, 2018.
Magistrate Jiyina Ayuba Bwangali, handed down the verdict when the defendant who was apprehended after he had escaped to Cameroon Republic was arraigned before her for prosecution.
NEWS PLATFORM gathered that the convict escaped to Cameroon republic in order to avoid being arrested where he had spent 1 month and 2 weeks before returning to Nigeria when things became very hard for him in Cameroon.
Gaddafi Musa, of Wuro Kuturu, Yola North Local Government Area, conspired with Aminu Adamu and Yusuf Adamu, and invaded Umar Faruk Ibrahim's residence around 2:00am, where they threatened to kill him and his younger brother, Nasiru Ibrahim.
The trio who armed themselves with cutllases and knives during their operation; however, carted away with 2 of their victims' phones valued N100, 000 and N20, 000 respectively.
Aminu and Yusuf later sold the phone valued N100, 000, to one Ayuba Abdullahi, at the sum of N10, 000, only.
But as fate will have it, Aminu, Yusuf and Ayuba, the receiver of stolen property, were nabbed by the vigilantes and arraigned before the court presided by its former judge, Magistrate Japhet Ibrahim Basani.
Magistrate Basani, sentenced Aminu Adamu and Yusuf Adamu to 7 years in prison each without option of fine, while, Ayuba Abdullahi, was slammed 5 year prison term with N100, 000 option of fine for criminal conspiracy, extortion and theft.
But Gaddafi Musa, who got wind of the arrest of his accomplices, escaped to Cameroon republic, where he spent over a month before returning to Nigeria.
Instead of returning to Yola, his home town, Gaddafi, stopped at Farang in Fufore Local Government Area, where he spent over a week, and later came back to Yola after he was informed about the conviction of the duo.
Few days later, the prosecutor, Seargent Kabiru Abubakar, who acted on tip off, led a team which arrested Gaddafi on the 21st October, 2021 and arraigned before the chief magistrate court on the 22nd October, 2021.
While in court, Gaddafi, pleaded guilty to the offence as charged by the prosecution, after which Seargent Kabiru, the prosecutor called a witness, Nasiru Ibrahim, who corroborated his guilt plea and subsequently applied for summary trial of the defendant.
In her ruling on Tuesday, Magistrate Jiyina Ayuba Bwangali, convicted and sentenced him to 8 years in prison without option of fine.
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