A Makurdi magistrates’ court in Benue State on Wednesday ordered that three brothers, Ignatius Agera, Joseph Agera and Agema Agera, be remanded in a correction centre for conspiring and setting their brother, Igbaakura Agera’s, house on fire in Gboko LGA.
The prosecutor, Insp Godwin Ato, told the court that on November 4, 2022, Igbaakura reported that on the night of November 3, while he was sleeping with his family, the defendants set his round thatched room on fire and that he lost property worth N448,800 and N300,000 cash in the fire.
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The Magistrate, Roseline Iyorshe, adjourned to January 17.
