{"id":160986,"date":"2025-04-30T18:01:52","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T17:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/yola-court-jails-8-people-over-theft-of-airport-electricity-communication-cables"},"modified":"2025-04-30T20:06:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T19:06:22","slug":"yola-court-jails-8-people-over-theft-of-airport-electricity-communication-cables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/yola-court-jails-8-people-over-theft-of-airport-electricity-communication-cables","title":{"rendered":"Yola court jails 8 people over theft of airport electricity, communication cables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Chief Magistrate Court I sitting in Yola, Adamawa State, has convicted and sentenced eight people to 10 years imprisonment each over vandalisstion of airport electricity and telecommunication cables.<\/p>\n<p>The court, presided by Chief Magistrate Mohammed Njidda, sentenced the defendants to jail for criminal conspiracy, criminal trespass, mischief, theft and dishonestly receiving stolen property.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The convicts: Tamakai Augustine, 19; Remember Markus, 22; Junior Livinus, 22; Salvation Bosom, 18; Sunday Bulus, 18; Geoffrey Karuni, 18; Salvation Amos, and Jude Anthony were jailed seven years in prison each, with option of N250,000 fine for the offence of mischief in relation to the electricity and telecommunication equipment vandalised.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the convicts bagged two years prison term each without option of fine for theft, 1 year imprisonment each or N25,000 option of fine for criminal conspiracy and six months each behind bars or option of N25,000 for criminal trespass.<\/p>\n<p>The court ordered all the convicts to pay N4.033 million each, amounting to N32,279 million compensation, being the amount of the ground cables 1920m from Cast Wing 1860 from Airfield Edge Light Circuit Cable of the airport carted away.<\/p>\n<p>While all the convicts pleaded guilty to the offences at their arraignment in court, a defendant, Augustine Stephen, 45 years old, pleaded not guilty and his matter was reserved for ruling.<\/p>\n<p>Two other defendants, Suleiman Ibrahim and Yusuf Adamu are currently at large.<\/p>\n<p>The Police Prosecutor, Inspector S. 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