Kogi court remands man for robbery

A Magistrate Court sitting in Lokoja, Kogi State has remanded an 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 for committing an offence punishable under Section 298 of the Kogi State Administration of Criminal Justice.

The prosecution counsel, Yahaya Olanrewaju, has filed an ex parte motion supported by an 18-paragraph affidavit seeking an application for an order of the honourable court to remand the suspect, Ibrahim Musa, in the custody of the Nigerian Correctional Service, 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 the Lokoja Local Government Area for belonging to an armed robbery syndicate from Abuja terrorising the Federal University, Lokoja community.

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 a story of how they were attacked with  a machete and other dangerous weapons by the armed robbers before taking away their phones.

“The suspect also volunteered in his statement claiming that he belonged to the eight-man gang of armed robbers based in Mararaba, Abuja.

Musa was caught in the act while others took to theirs heels.” the counsel posited.

In his ruling, the presiding judge, Mopa Andullahi, granted the prosecution counsel’s application to remand the suspect in the custody of Koton Karfe Medium Correctional Centre.

He stated that “having heard the exparte motion and the 18-paragraph affidavit and having seen the merit in the application “I hereby grant the order seeking to remand the suspect for only 14 days and be returned to court on August 12, 2024.