Criminal Area Court II sitting in Yola, Adamawa State has convicted and sentenced 8 "Shila" boys to 6 years in prison each.
Those convicted include; Isa Yunusa, Aliyu Bello, Samaila Adamu, Ali Musa, Danlami Mohammed, Abubakar Usman, Muktar Saminu and Umar Faruk.
The Court sentenced the Defendants who hail from Jambutu Motor park, Hulere and Rumde Baru in Yola North and South Local Government Areas respectively.
They were convicted to 6 years in prison each without option of a fine for "criminal conspiracy, theft, mischief and inciting disturbance," contrary to sections 60, 276, 318, and 80 of the Penal Code Law.
They were also ordered to pay the sum of N65, 000 compensation to their Victim and Commander of the Vigilante Group, Ishaku Mohammed, as applied by the Prosecutor, Corporal Ismail Mohammed.
The Court presided by Hon. Muhammad Alamin Diya Lamurde, also revoked the bail of the 10 Defendant, Hudu Ya'u, for failure to appear in court.
Hon. Alamin, while issuing an arrest warrant against the 10 Defendant, ordered that his surety who happened to be his father be remanded in prison custody for failure to produce the Defendant to stand his trial.
Likewise, the Court in the case of the 9 Defendant, Adamu Alhaji who changed his plea from guilty to not guilty, adjourned the matter to the 2nd June 2022 for a definite hearing in the cases of the 9 and 10 Defendants respectively.
While handing down the sentence, the Judge declared that the Court convicted the 8 Defendants after they were found guilty and by the provision of the law.
He added that they were convicted after they had pleaded guilty and also maintained their plea coupled with the corroboration of the Prosecution Witness.
Prosecuting the case, Corporal Ismail Mohammed, told the Court that 2 of the Convicts were arrested by the Vigilantes at Rumde Baru in Yola South LGA on 4th May 2022 at about 2:23 am.
He stated that the Convicts heavily armed themselves with knives, cutlasses, and sticks and attacked the Commander of Vigilante of Rumde Baru, Ishaku Mohammed, as well as damaged his phone, valued at N65, 000.
When arraigned before the Court by Corporal Ismail Mohammed, all the Defendants pleaded to the offenses after which the Prosecutor called a Witness who testified in Court and closed his case.
On their part, the Convicts maintained their earlier plea and pleaded with the Court to temper justice with mercy after which the court convicted them accordingly.
NEWS PLATFORM gathered that 2 of the Defendants Danlami Mohammed and Umar Faruk, stole the phone of a boy at Rumde Baru and that the boy was able to identify them.
When the boy saw them sometime later, he confronted them and was able to recover his phone from them without a sim and memory card respectively.
The boy who was said to have been attacked by the Convicts, ran to the house of the Commander of Vigilante of Rumde Baru, Ishaku Mohammed, for safety.
It was learned that the Convicts took to their heels when they sighted the Commander of the Vigilantes who came out of his house to face them.
Later on, Danlami and Faruk went and mobilized other convicts who stormed the residence of the Commander and assaulted him with a cutlass and damaged his phone.
After the incident, the Vigilantes mobilized themselves and arrested all the Convicts; hence, their Prosecution.
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