I ENGAGED IN ROBBERY TO RAISE MONEY TO PAY SCHOOL FEES-SS II STUDENT

A 23 year old SS II Student of Demsawo Government Secondary School Yola, Adamawa state, Abubakar Mohammed has confessed venturing into armed robbery so as to raise money to pay his school fees.

Abubakar, who was arraigned before Yola Magistrate Court I on one count charge of armed robbery which runs contrary to section 287 of the state penal code law, admitted committing the alleged crime.

The student was alleged to have broke into the house of one Maryam Jamilu at Wauru Jabbe in Yola South LGA in a broad day light brandishing a knife and threatening to kill her.

He allegedly attacked her on the 11th February, 2022 in her palour where he robbed her off her mobile phone spark 6 model valued N68, 000, an Itel phone valued N6000 and the sum of N200 cash.

While Maryam was seeing her visitor off after the said operation, she sighted the young man who had stormed her house and robbed her of her valuables, where she raised an alarm which led to the arrest of the defendant.

After the plea of the defendant was taken, the prosecutor, ASP Francis Audu, urged the court to remand the defendant at a correctional centre to enable them transmit case file to DPP for legal advice considering the nature of the offence.

In his ruling, the presiding judge, Abdullahi Mohammed Digil, ordered the remand of the defendant and adjourned the matter as prayed by the prosecutor.

But the defendant had while speaking to NEWS PLATFORM, said that he engaged in armed robbery so as to raise money to pay his 1st and 2nd terms school fees, saying that his father is dead and was left with no alternative than to venture into it.