Youths In School Uniform Snatch Phones, While Threatening Victims With Knife

Category: Crime News

Youths dressed in school uniform of a famous college in Yola, have attacked two victims with a long knife and seized their mobile phones.

It was gathered on Sunday that the suspects: Madu Ibrahim and Husseini Abbas, conspired with six others now at large, all dressed like students, snatched the phones after scarring the owners with knife.

It was further learnt that the two arrested suspects and the other six belonging to a syndicate, which specializes in snatching phones and other valuables while in school uniform.

Madu and Husseini allegedly attacked Margret Peter and Alhassan Yunusa on the 6th of this month, and made away with their phones valued at N68, 000.

According to a local media report published on Sunday, the suspects were arrested and arraigned before Upper Area Court 4 in Yola on Friday, by the Prosecutor, Sergent Kabiru Abubakar with charges of criminal conspiracy and extortion.

The two reportedly attacked their victims and snatched their handsets along Numan Road, Yola North Local Government Area, by 5:00pm on that July 6th, following which they were identified and arrested.

In court, after the substance of their offenses were established, as contained in the First Information Report (FIR), both confessed to the offenses.

Subsequently, the court presided over by Hon. Ibrahim Musa Ulenda ordered their remand and adjourned the case to July 26, 2022.