50 notorious boys terrorising residents in Adamawa arrested
A notorious squad specializing in the snatching of hand-sets, pick-pocketing, raping of underage girls and other social vices in Yola, the Adamawa State capital, and its environs has been smashed in a separate operations by the Adamawa State Police Command and the Department of State Services, DSS.
The over 50 boys, aged between 15 and 20 years, are members of a criminal group called, “Shilla Boys” attacking and robbing their victims in the state capital through the use of Keke Napep especially towards the busy areas in the evenings.
The notorious Shilla Boys were on Tuesday taken before the Nassarawo Area court in Jimeta by an official of the Department of State Security Services for prosecution over their atrocities against members of the public.
The official told the court that the boys were arrested in different black spots of Aisha Ghandi Night club and small sambisa forest near Moddibo Adama University of Technology, Yola in possession of intoxicating substances and dangerous weapons used for injuring their victims whenever there is resistance.
After listening to the confessional statement from the arrested youths, Magistrate Japheth Ibrahim Basani directed that they be remanded in both Jimeta and Yola prisons for further investigation.
Spokesman of the command, S.P Othman Abubakar said that the command had arrested, interrogated and prosecuted over twenty boys in various courts in the state for criminal offences ranging from attacking, robbing, raping and in some cases killing victims after retrieving them of their valuables.
He lamented that in some cases, parents and judiciary are not helping matters in fighting the menace, decrying that if police made arrest and take to courts, they are released back to the society in the name of granting them bail.
