Attack on Keke rider: Minna Court jails man 17 years for armed robbery, attempted murder

A Minna High Court has handed down a 17-year situation condemnation to a 47-year-old man, Zingfa Nanboi, for his relation successful a convulsive onslaught connected a commercialized tricycle rider, bringing to a adjacent a lawsuit of attempted execution and equipped robbery that dates backmost to 2022.

Delivering judgement astatine Court Six of the Judiciary Complex, Justice Balkisu Gambo Yusuf ruled that the sentences would tally consecutively.

Nanboi was arraigned by the Niger State Ministry of Justice connected a three-count complaint bordering connected transgression conspiracy, attempted culpable homicide, and equipped robbery.

The prosecuting counsel, Fatima Mohammed, a Director successful the Ministry, told the tribunal that the offences contravened Sections 1(1)(a) and (b) of the Robbery and Firearms (Special Provisions) Act, arsenic good arsenic Sections 99 and 229 of the Penal Code Law of Niger State.

The tribunal heard that connected May 22, 2022, the convict conspired with 1 Frank Moses, who remains astatine large, to onslaught a commercialized tricycle rider, Adamu Saidu.

The unfortunate had picked them up from the Obasanjo Complex successful Minna en way to Maikunkele.

Along Airport Road, Nanboi allegedly strangled the rider with a cablegram and gagged him to forestall h...