Yola court jails 8 people over theft of airport electricity, communication cables

The Chief Magistrate Court I sitting successful Yola, Adamawa State, has convicted and sentenced 8 radical to 10 years imprisonment each implicit vandalisstion of airdrome energy and telecommunication cables.

The court, presided by Chief Magistrate Mohammed Njidda, sentenced the defendants to jailhouse for transgression conspiracy, transgression trespass, mischief, theft and dishonestly receiving stolen property.”

The convicts: Tamakai Augustine, 19; Remember Markus, 22; Junior Livinus, 22; Salvation Bosom, 18; Sunday Bulus, 18; Geoffrey Karuni, 18; Salvation Amos, and Jude Anthony were jailed 7 years successful situation each, with enactment of N250,000 good for the offence of mischief successful narration to the energy and telecommunication instrumentality vandalised.

Also, the convicts bagged 2 years situation word each without enactment of good for theft, 1 twelvemonth imprisonment each oregon N25,000 enactment of good for transgression conspiracy and six months each down bars oregon enactment of N25,000 for transgression trespass.

The tribunal ordered each the convicts to wage N4.033 cardinal each, amounting to N32,279 cardinal compensation, being the magnitude of the crushed cables 1920m from Cast Wing 1860 from Airfield Edge Light Circuit Cable of the airdrome carted away.

While each the convicts pleaded blameworthy to the offences astatine their arraignment successful court, a defendant, Augustine Stephen, 45 years old, pleaded not blameworthy and his substance was reserved for ruling.

Two different defendants, Suleiman Ibrahim and Yusuf Adamu are presently astatine large.

The Police Prosecutor, Inspector S. S. Nicholas, arraigning the convicts earlier, told the tribunal that the convicts and the defendants astatine ample had perpetrated the transgression past year, 23rd July, 2024.

The authoritative said the convicts and the defendants who were of Bachure successful Yola North Local Government Area, conspired and trespassed into the airdrome and vandalised the cables and telecommunication and sold 9kg of copper ligament to Suleiman Ibrahim astatine N81,000.