Five Benue teenagers arrested for killing 18-year-old student
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The Makurdi Magistrate’s Court, on Thursday remanded five teenagers in a correctional facility for allegedly killing an 18-year old student, Yakubu Garba.
The defendants, Abdullahi Ismail, 14; Ismail Abubakar, 18; Mustapha Yakubu, 15; Suleiman Ismail, 18, and Sani Yahaya, 18, are being charged with criminal conspiracy, terrorism and culpable homicide.
The defendants are residents of Imam Street, Abinsi, in Guma LGA.
The magistrate, Cynthia Ikpe, did not take the defendant’s plea for lack of jurisdiction.
She ordered them remanded at the Makurdi Correctional Centre so that the police could properly investigate the matter.
He adjourned the case until June 26, 2024.
Earlier, the prosecutor, Friday Inedu, told the court that the father of the deceased, Garba Sani, reported the matter at the Abinsi Police Station on May 9.
Mr Inedu said the defendants committed the offences on May 8, at Imam Street, Abinsi, Guma Local Government Area, Benue.
He said the defendants and others now at large, stormed the area with cutlasses and other weapons to attack his 18-year old son.
”The injuries inflicted on him as a result of the attack led to his death. Investigation is still ongoing, we urge the court for another date for the mention of the case,” he said.
(NAN)
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