Adamawa court jails three Shila boys 10 years each for extortion

A tribunal successful the Adamawa State capital, Yola, has convicted and sentenced 3 youths identified arsenic members of a escaped pack of notorious transgression elements known arsenic Shila boys to 10 years successful situation each.

The 3 were accused of arming themselves with cutlasses and snatching a mobile telephone from a resident.

The condemnation on Thursday was 1 of respective specified cases successful caller weeks, signalling a resoluteness to bring the youths to justness and perchance stem the transgression syndicate.

In the latest case, the Chief Magistrate Court II, sitting successful Yola, sentenced the 3 Shila boys: Sanusi Umar, 19; Mohammed Magaji, 17; and Yakubu Ibrahim, 20, each of Zango Ward successful Yola North Local Government Area.

The court, presided implicit by Dorcas Mavah, handed them 3 years each without an enactment of a good for conspiracy and 7 years each without an enactment of a good for extortion.

Prior to their arraignment, Sanusi Umar and the 2 others were arrested by operatives of the Doubeli Police Station successful Jimeta, who established that the youths had equipped themselves with cutlasses and attacked 1 Bello Yusuf of Anguwan Tana successful Yola North LGA, extorting his Smart P-30 mobile telephone valued astatine N42,000.

The offence took spot connected Wednesday, September 9, 2026.

The constabulary prosecutor, Inspector Kabiru Abubakar, told the tribunal during the arraignment on Thursday that the youths we...