A High Court in Yola, the Adamawa State capital, has sentenced six youths to death by hanging for armed robbery.
The convicts were found guilty of mounting illegal roadblocks and robbed passengers in 2015 along Lafiya-Numan highway.
Those convicted are Munbe Bala, student of the Department of Mathematics and Education of Modibbo Adama University Yola, Afu Stephen former staff of Nigeria Communications Satellite (NiComSat), Abuja, Peter Eli, Hassan Yusuf, Bobi Mabudi, and Emmanuel Kenneth.
Justice Abdulazeez Waziri of Adamawa State High Court 4, said the prosecution has proved his case and convicted the six for conspiracy and armed robbery and ordered that they should be hanged, adding that they deserved no less punishment for their actions.
In the course of the prosecution, which took nearly six years, the prosecutors called eight witnesses and tendered six documents in the court as exhibits.
The prosecution told the court that the defendants had on the 29th and 31st of August, 2015 mounted an illegal roadblock on a bridge along the grossly dilapidated Savannah Sugar Company section of the Lafia-Numan highway.
They were allegedly armed with single-barrelled guns, locally made pistols, cutlasses and knives, and wearing military jackets, mounted the roadblock with drums and stones and robbed travellers of phones, money, and other valuables.
The defendants had confessed that they first blocked the road on the 29th August 2015 robbed occupants in a Toyota starlet car coming from Gombe State to Adamawa, carted away with six mobile phones and N9,500.
According to them, on the 31st August 2015 at 10:00 pm, they went back to the same spot, blocked the road and succeeded in scaring the drivers of three trucks conveying cement, banana, and stockfish to abandon their vehicles and flee upon sighting them.
They said after searching the abandoned vehicles got found N11,200 and four phones.
They were brought before the law, beginning from the police,
According to their confession on their way back home, they met with members of a vigilante group who engaged them with fire and succeeded in making them run into a maize farm from where they were caught the following day.
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