Bauchi court jails eight over thuggery in Unguwar Dim

A Bauchi tribunal has sentenced 8 suspects to 8 years’ imprisonment each for thuggery and disturbance of nationalist bid successful Unguwar Dim, Bauchi metropolis.

The court, however, gave each of them the enactment of paying a good of N370,000.

The suspects were arrested aft the Bauchi State Police Command received a ailment from the Peace and Security Committee of Unguwar Dim connected October 14 implicit renewed thuggery successful the area.

Following the complaint, constabulary operatives and members of the committee raided a suspected hoodlums’ hideout successful the aboriginal hours of October 15.

The cognition led to the apprehension of 9 suspects and the betterment of machetes, cutlasses, knives, sticks, illicit substances and different unsafe items.

Police spokesman, SP Nafiu Habib, said successful a connection issued connected Saturday that 8 of the suspects were charged to tribunal aft investigations.

He said the suspects pleaded blameworthy to the charges and were convicted and sentenced by the court.

The Commissioner of Police, Sani-Omolori Aliyu, welcomed the judgment, describing it arsenic a effect of effectual collaboration betwixt the constabulary and the community.

Aliyu reaffirmed the command’s committedness to tackling thuggery and different convulsive crimes successful Bauchi State.

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