A Makurdi magistrates’ court in Benue State on Tuesday remanded two farmers, Aondoakaa Kator and Ernest Ajimta, both of Gboko LGA, over alleged criminal conspiracy and armed robbery.
The prosecutor, Insp James Ewache, told the court that one Godwin Mbauhar of No 59, J. S. Tarka Way, Gboko, on January 7, 2023, reported he was in his shop attending to customers when three armed men invaded, shooting sporadically.
Ewache said that the armed men ordered the complainant and his customers to lie face down and ransacked the shop and that the men took away the cash sum of N982,000 and 12 different types of Tecno phone.
The prosecutor said that during a police investigation, the stolen phones were tracked and a Tecno Spark 9 Pro and a Tecno Spark 8c were recovered from the defendants, leading to their arrest.
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According to the prosecutor, other suspects were still at large.
The Magistrate, Mrs Erdoo Ter, did not take the plea of the defendants for want of jurisdiction. She ordered their remanded at the Makurdi Correctional Centre pending investigation and adjourned to March 15. (NAN)
