COURT JAILS "SHILA" BOY 7 YEARS FOR EXTORTING N4,500 PHONE

 

COURT JAILS "SHILA" BOY 7 YEARS FOR EXTORTING N4,500 PHONE

Jimeta Area Court II sitting in Yola, Adamawa State has convicted and sentenced a 26 year old Umar Usman, to 7 years imprisonment for theft and extortion.

Umar, was slammed 2 years jail term for the offence of theft and 5 years for extortion or pay an alternative fine of N50, 000 and N100, 000 respectively.

He was sentenced by the presiding judge of the court, Hon. Muhammad Alamin Diya Lamurde, after he was found guilty for the offences.

Umar of Rumde Baru, Yola South Local Government Area, was arraigned before the court by Corporal Ismail Mohammed, of Jambutu Divisional Police Headquaters Yola.

He was arrested by the operatives of the division and charged before the court for offences which he voluntarily admitted having committed it.

After the convict's plea, the prosecutor called a corroborative witness and subsequently applied that the convict be tried summarily.

NEWS PLATFORM learnt that the convict extorted the phone valued N4,500 belonging to an 18 year old Auwal Umar, after he assaulted him on the 22nd August, 2022 at Rumde Baru.

The convict and his friend sighted their victim who was sent by his father to a nearby shop making phone call by 8:30pm, and descended on him as well as snatched his phone and ran away.

But unknown to the convict that he was identified by a woman and the owner of the shop who along side the father of the victim reported the matter to the police at Jambutu which led to his arrest.