A Magistrate Court sitting in Lokoja has remanded 18 year-old suspect, Ibrahim Musa for criminal conspiracy and armed robbery.
Musa was dragged before the Magistrate court by the Department of State Service (DSS) for committing an offence punishable under Section 298 of the Kogi State Administration of Criminal Justice.
The prosecution counsel, Yahaya Olanrewaju has filed experte motion and supported by 18 paragraph affidavit seeking application for an order of court to remand the suspect, Ibrahim Musa in the custody of the Nigerian Correctional Services Koton Karfe.
Olanrewaju also supported his argument with sections 291 and 292 of the Kogi State Administration of Criminal Justice and under the jurisdiction of the court.
The counsel pointed out that on July 21, 2024 , Ibrahim Musa was arrested at Felele in Lokoja local government area for belonging to a gang of armed robbery syndicate from Abuja terrorising Federal University community , Lokoja.
Musa was said to have been arrested with nine android phones stolen from their victims while his gang members fled the scene immediately.
The counsel explained that during the investigations some victims of the private lodges came to the DSS office to identify their phones and collected seven out of the nine stolen phones.
The victims also told the story of how they were attacked with machete and other dangerous weapon by the armed robbers before taking away their phones.
In the ruling , the presiding judge, Mopa Abdullahi, granted the prosecution counsel’s application to remand the suspect in custody of Koton Karfe Medium Correctional Centre.
He stated that “having heard the expertise motion and the 18 paragraphs affidavit and having seen the merit in the application, I hereby granted the order seeking to remand the suspect for only 14 days and be returned at court on the 12th day of August 2024.”
