8 jailed 10 years each for vandalising Yola Airport
A Chief Magistrate Court in Yola, Adamawa State, has convicted and sentenced eight individuals to 10 years imprisonment each for vandalising the Yola airport properties. The convicts were found guilty of a five-count charge bordering on criminal conspiracy, criminal trespass, mischief, theft and dishonestly receiving stolen property. The court, presided over by Chief Magistrate Mohammed […]
A Chief Magistrate Court in Yola, Adamawa State, has convicted and sentenced eight individuals to 10 years imprisonment each for vandalising the Yola airport properties.
The convicts were found guilty of a five-count charge bordering on criminal conspiracy, criminal trespass, mischief, theft and dishonestly receiving stolen property.
The court, presided over by Chief Magistrate Mohammed Njidda, handed down the sentences on Tamakai Augustine, 19, Remember Markus, 22, Junior Livinus, 22, Salvation Bosom, 18, Sunday Bulus, 18, Geoffrey Karuni, 18, Salvation Amos, and Jude Anthony.
Additionally, the court ordered the convicts to pay N4,033,000 each, totalling N32,264,000 in compensation for the vandalised airport property.
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The prosecutor, Inspector S. S. Nicholas, had earlier told the court that the convicts and others at large committed the offences on July 23, 2024, by trespassing into the airport and vandalising its cables and telecommunication equipment, which they sold to one Suleiman Ibrahim for N81,000.
While the convicts pleaded guilty to the offences, one defendant, Augustine Stephen, 45, pleaded not guilty, and his matter was reserved.
Two other suspects, Suleiman Ibrahim and Yusuf Adamu, are currently at large.