I Ventured Into Armed Robbery To Raise Money For School Fees- SS 2 Student

Abubakar Mohammed, a SS II student, has been arrested for armed robbery in Yola, Adamawa state.

The 23-year-old man who is a student of Demsawo Government Secondary School Yola said he ventured into robbery to raise money for his school fees.

It was gathered that the suspect broke into the house of one Maryam Jamilu at Wauru Jabbe in Yola South LGA in a broad daylight brandishing a knife and threatening to kill her.

He allegedly attacked her on the 11th February 2022 in her parlour where he robbed her of her mobile phone valued at N68, 000, another phone valued at N6000 and the sum of N200 cash.

While Maryam was seeing her visitor off after the said operation, she sighted the suspect and raised an alarm which led to his arrest.

Abubakar Mohammed was arraigned before Yola Magistrate Court I, on one count charge of armed robbery which runs contrary to section 287 of the state penal code law. After the plea of the defendant was taken, the prosecutor, ASP Francis Audu, urged the court to remand the defendant at a correctional centre to enable them to transmit the case file to DPP for legal advice considering the nature of the offence.

In his ruling, the presiding judge, Abdullahi Mohammed Digil, ordered the remand of the defendant and adjourned the matter as prayed by the prosecutor.