Justice Modupe Nicol-Clay sentenced the 30-year-old Saliu, after a plea bargain agreement.
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Justice Olubunmi Abike-Fadipe convicted Iwuno for armed robbery and conspiracy to commit armed robbery.
The Commissioner of Police in the FCT, Haruna Garba, said this during a media briefing on Tuesday in Abuja.
The Spokesman for the Command, ASP Mansur Hassan told the News Agency of Nigeria on Wednesday in Kaduna, that operatives of the Command rescued the victims on November 13.
A 22-year-old tailor, Toheeb Afolade, who was arrested while in possession of a first of its kind gas gun, said his friend, Sodiq, lured him into armed robbery.
The police charged: Azeez Owolabi, 26, Quadri Gatta, 22 and Ojo Ogunlowo, 34 with conspiracy, robbery, possession of dangerous weapons and belonging to an unlawful society.
The two others were paraded for suspected armed robbery and culpable homicide on Thursday in Ilorin, Kwara State.
This was confirmed in a statement issued on Friday by the command’s Spokesperson, SP Benjamin Hundeyin.
Okeke was robbed on Jingre-Saminaka Road in Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau on May 22 and the recovered money was returned to him on July 4.
Lawal is facing two counts of conspiracy to commit robbery and robbery.
In a statement on Thursday by Force PRO, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, the FIB-STS equally recovered a total of eight (8) foreign and seven (7) locally made AK47 rifles, eight (8) revolver rifles, two thousand two hundred (2,200) rounds of live ammunition of different calibres, twelve (14) AK47 magazines, three (3) stolen cars, 10 fake number plates and a cash sum of one million, eight hundred and eighty thousand (1,880,000) naira from the suspects during follow-up investigations.
The State’s Commissioner of Police Phillip Ogbadu, made the confirmation in a phone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).
The Magistrate, Victor Kor, did not take the plea of the defendant for want of jurisdiction at the arraignment on Thursday.
The police charged Ishola Rilwan, 27; Isiaka Sheriff, 23; Yusuf Ifekoya, 22; and Edward Chima, 25 with conspiracy and robbery.
The country is currently grappling with security hitches cutting across the six geopolitical regions, particularly in the North East, North Central, North West and South East.
Olalekan was arraigned on two count charges of felony and conspiracy to commit robbery.
The convicts were convicted and sentenced after they pleaded guilty under a plea bargain agreement.
The suspects; Daniel Okereke, Henry Osagwe and Wisdom Atuba were arrested following information received by the policemen attached to Mowe divisional headquarters at about 10 pm, that a group of men numbering about seven who were suspected to be armed robbers were sighted in an hideout at Ajeonibode area of Mowe, where they were perfecting plans on when and how to attack their targeted victims.
Nineteen-year-old Abayomi, whose address was not given, appeared before Magistrate A. J. Odueke on a three-count charge of conspiracy, breach of the peace and robbery.
The command also announced that the arrested persons included those suspected to be supplying fuel to bandits in different parts of the state.