Acting Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, made this known in a statement he issued on Sunday in Abuja.
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The particular case in point began on the night of 23rd August, 2016, when the four suspects – Tochukwu Uwalaka, Gideon Igbabo, Miracle Amaechi, and Jamil Abdulsalam – lured the 10-year-old daughter of their victim at gun point to get access into his house at Kuje District in Abuja. The suspects thereafter attacked the victim and his family with dangerous weapons, and carted away valuables which included a 2006 Xterra Jeep, a 2008 Toyota Camry, 2 HP laptops, phones, a digital camera, cash sum of N200,000, jewellery and other valuables. The matter was transferred to the FIB-IRT where operatives swiftly apprehended one of the suspects who led them to his three accomplices.
Suspected armed robbers, numbering about eight, it was gathered, gained entry into the hotel around 3:10am.
The defendant, who resides at No. 15, Bonny St., Mile 2, Lagos, is facing two counts of conspiracy and armed robbery, to which he pleaded not guilty when he was arraigned.
Mohammed, 22, whose residential address was not provided, is facing a two-count charge of conspiracy and armed robbery.
They were charged with conspiracy, belonging to an unlawfully society, illegal possession of gun, armed robbery and rape.
Justice Oyindamola Ogala Wednesday ordered Asonta and Ajayi, 32, following their not guilty plea to a two-count charge of conspiracy and armed robbery.
The magistrate, Sadiq Bello, ordered that the case file should be sent to the State Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).
Confirming the development in a chat, Lowa Adimula of Ife, High Chief Abraham Adekola, who is the third in line to Ooni, said the Ooni-in-Council had to put up the measure on behalf of the monarch, to curtail criminality in the town.
The police charged Adamu, who resides in Gyeani Village LGA of Kaduna, with criminal conspiracy and armed robbery.
The Commissioner of Police in the state, Bartholomew Onyeka, paraded the suspects before journalists on Wednesday in Jos.
The convict was tried on a two-count charge of conspiracy and armed robbery.
The state Commissioner of Police, Lawal Abubakar, disclosed this on Thursday in his maiden media briefing in Enugu.
A statement by the command said 242 of those arrested are being prosecuted by various courts within the state.
The defendants are facing a three-count charge of armed robbery, unlawful possession of firearms and conspiracy.
The defendants: Phillip Michael, Felix Sylvester, Ibrahim Aliu and Adavize Mohammed, are facing one-court charge of armed robbery.
The police charged Bemdoo Ita, Peter Jebu and Michael Agebe who all reside in Yelwata in Guma Local Government Area of Benue with criminal conspiracy, armed robbery, culpable homicide and act of terrorism.
Dada ordered the remand of the defendants after they both pleaded not guilty to a four-count charge bordering on conspiracy to commit robbery, armed robbery, assault occasioning bodily harm and damage to property.
The Chief Magistrate, Vincent Kor who did not take the plea of the defendants from Aliade, Gwer-East Local Government Area of Benue, ordered that they be remanded in prison custody.
The convicts: Oluwole Edward, 49; Kolawole Ojo, 39; and Kolawole Tope 20, were pronounced guilty as charged