< img src="https://eyewitness101.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/teenager-bags-7-years-for-snatching-handset-in-adamawa.jpg" class="ff-og-image-inserted" > A teenage kid in Adamawa State has actually bagged seven years in jail for nabbing a handset valued at

N60,000. The 18-year-old young boy was found to be one of a crop of kids and boys infamously called Shila Boys in Adamawa State who are understood for burglaries, particularly around the state capital, Yola

The Shila Boy, Abubakar Mohammed, was on Friday founded guilty and sentenced to seven years in prison for extortion without alternative of fine.

Abubakar, who is of Rumde ward in Yola North Local Government Area, was sentenced by Hon. Ibrahim Musa Ulenda of the Upper Area Court 4 being in Yola.

The convict was last month jailed for obtaining an infinix cell phone costing N60, 000 and coming from one Himage Yayirus of Nyako Quarters in Yola North LGA.

Court records suggest that the convict nabbed Himage’s phone around Doubeli Junction, a T-junction in Doubeli area of Jimeta, Yola North.

He was stated to have actually run off into the bush along the Jimeta Bypass, however was unfortunate to have actually encountered someone who was defecating in the bush.

When the guy saw the kid being pursued by a mob towards him, he increased fast and grabbed Abubakar.

He was dragged to a neighboring cops divisional workplace in the heart of Doubeli, from where he was subsequently charged and arraigned in court by Sergeant Kabiru Abubakar of the Doubeli Police Station.

He pleaded guilty in court to the charge of extortion, an offence which goes contrary to area 283 of the penal code law.

After his plea, and following tendering of the phone he took which was confessed in proof during trial, the district attorney hoped the court to attempt him summarily.

Delivering his judgement, Hon. Ibrahim Musa Ulenda founded guilty and sentenced Abubakar to 7 years in jail without choice of fine.