Chief Magistrate Court 5 in Yola, Adamawa State has convicted and sentenced 2 Local Hunters to 10 years in prison each without option of fine.
The court presided by Chief Magistrate Maimuna C. Muhammed, sentenced the affected hunters after they were tried and found guilty.
The convicts included; Abdullahi Suleiman, 43, of Kasuwan Katako along Numan road and Muhammed Musa, 43, of Ajiya Street in Yola North LGA.
They were arraigned before the court for crimimal conspiracy, extortion, impersonation and being in possession of dangerous weapons.
On their arraignment, both convicts admitted committing the alleged offences after which the prosecutor, Inspector Nimrod Galion, called a witness and tendered exhibits in evidence.
They were apprehended by the operatives of the Police Command on the 21st January, 2023, for extorting 2 persons of the sum of N53, 500 and handset.
While armed with knives, cutlasses and sticks, the convicts pretended to be police officers and arrested 3 people at Mubi Roundabout between 8:00pm to 9:00pm on the 20th January, 2023.
The duo handcuffed their victims, put them in a tricycle and threatened to take them to police headquarters for investigation.
While on their way to police headquaters, the convicts stopped the tricycle, searched one of their victims and released him, remaining a young man identified as Moses Donatus and one other.
Instead of going to police headquaters, the hunters followed bank road with the remaining 2 victims and ordered each one of them to bail himself.
Along bank road, the convicts stopped their tricycle again and started beating Donatus, cut his hair with a knife as a result of which he sustained severe injuries.
They eventually collected the sum of N3, 500 and handset from Donatus after barbing him and the sum of 50, 000 from one other unsuspecting victim as bail fees.
After securing their freedom, Donatus, went and lodged a complaint at Karewa Police Station which led to the arrest of the suspects.
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