Court remands three men over alleged armed robbery
A Kaduna Chief Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday ordered that three farmers be remanded in a correctional facility, over alleged armed robbery.
The police charged Hassan Markus, 29, Samaila Rabo, 26 and Mua’zu Musa, 29, with two counts of criminal conspiracy and armed robbery. The Magistrate, Umar Ibrahim, who refused to take the plea of the farmers, ordered that they be remanded pending legal advice from the Director of Public Prosecution ,NAN reports.Earlier, the prosecution counsel, Insp. Chidi Leo, told the court that the matter was transferred to the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department by the DPO of Ikara Divisional Headquarters Kaduna State, on Jan. 7.
According to Leo, the defendants armed themselves with a pistol, cutlass and sticks and robbed one Ubale Alhassan while he was coming from Makarfi Market Kaduna and heading to Kano State.Leo said the offence contravened the provisions of sections 6, 2 and of the robbery and firearms Act, CAP R11, LFN 2004.
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