Shila Boys-style thief jailed 12 years in Adamawa for theft, extortion

A young but notorious thief wide known to beryllium a subordinate member of the infamous “Shila Boys” pack successful Adamawa State, Suddais Shuaibu, popularly known arsenic Gafiya, has been sentenced to 12 years successful situation without an enactment of fine.

Shuaibu was convicted by Chief Magistrate Court II sitting successful Yola implicit aggregate transgression offences, including theft, transgression conspiracy, extortion and receiving stolen property.

The court, presided implicit by Magistrate Zainab Buba, sentenced him to 2 years imprisonment for theft, 1 twelvemonth for transgression conspiracy and 7 years for extortion based connected the archetypal and 2nd First Information Reports (FIRs). The sentences were ordered to tally astatine the aforesaid time.

He was besides sentenced to an further 2 years imprisonment without an enactment of good implicit different theft complaint contained successful the 3rd FIR.

The tribunal further ordered the convict to wage N527,000 arsenic compensation to his victims.

Shuaibu was arraigned by the Adamawa State Commissioner of Police done a constabulary prosecutor, Inspector Kabiru Abubakar.

According to the prosecution, Shuaibu broke into the residence...