Adamawa court jails four ‘Shilla boys’ for illegal possession of arms

The Chief Magistrate’s Court 3, sitting successful Yola, Adamawa State, has sentenced 4 ‘Shilla boys’ to 2 and a fractional years’ imprisonment each for being successful possession of weapons astatine an unusual hr and successful suspicious circumstances.

The 4 are to service their sentences without the enactment of a fine.

The court, presided implicit by Chief Magistrate Uwani Danladi, convicted the defendants connected charges of “criminal conspiracy, being successful possession of unsafe weapons and ‘shilla’ activities.”

The convicts, Habibu Abubakar, Salihu Mahmud, Idris Muhammed and Auwal Hamidu, each residents of Demsawo Ward successful Yola North Local Government Area, were arrested connected October 4, 2026, astatine astir 2 americium astir Mahmud Guest Inn, wherever they were recovered successful possession of weapons, including a cutlass and scissors.

The details of the lawsuit are contained successful the First Information Report tendered successful tribunal by the constabulary prosecutor, Inspector Danjuma Hamidu, who said the offences contravened Sections 60, 207 and 304 of the Penal Code Law of Adamawa State.

At their arraignment earlier, the convicts pleaded blameworthy to the offences, aft which the authoritative applied for a summary trial.

The ruling, delivered connected Wednesday, came amid respective different rulings handed down successful caller months against radical associated with transgression acts typically committed by young criminals known successful Adamawa State arsenic Shilla boys, wh...