Court remands five men for alleged robbery in Kano

A Kano Chief Magistrates’ Court on Friday remanded five men in correctional centre for illegal possession of firearms and for robbery.

Musa Ibrahim, 48; Lawan Sa’adu, 38; Abdulwahab Ubale, 20; Isma’il Bello, 24; and Sa’idu Sani, 40, are being tried for criminal conspiracy, armed robbery and illegal possession of arms.

Chief Magistrate Mustapha Sa’ad-Datti gave the order to remand them pending legal advice from the state’s Director of Public Prosecutions on the case.

Sa’ad-Datti adjourned the case until April 7 for mention.

Earlier, the prosecutor, Asma’u Ado, told the court that the defendants committed the offences on January 13 at Zainawa Village in Gezawa Local Government, Kano.

Ado alleged that the defendants about 12:30am criminally conspired with one Musa Abubakar and others now at large to rob two Chinese nationals.

Ado said the defendants broke into Wexiang Mosquito Company situated at Zainawa Village and allegedly robbed one Ananthachai Amnalbandit and his wife of four cell phones.

He said the defendants, while armed with dangerous weapons such as gun, cutlasses, and sticks, also took one computer device and two wristwatches worth N137,000.

The prosecutor said the offences contravened the Robbery and Firearms (Special Provisions) Act, 2004 as amended.

The defendants, however, denied committing the offences.