Man breaks into Yola cemetery, steals iron rods

A person in Adamawa State, Faisal Yusuf, has admitted to breaking right into a cemetery on the capital, Yola, in a transfer to steal iron rods to promote to scrap sellers.

Yusuf who hails from Mayo Belwa Local Government Area however says he’s a pupil of a better establishment in Yola, has corroborated the allegation that he was caught at a Christian cemetery in Yola at night time whereas he was trying to take away the iron rods used round graves.

Yusuf was reportedly apprehended by the safety personnel on the cemetery who handed him over to the Karewa Police Division for investigation and prosecution.

The police prosecution officer, Inspector Galeon Nimrod, who performed the arraignment, secured an order for Yusuf’s remand.

Upon the request, the courtroom, presided over by Chief Magistrate Ismail Bello Shelleng, ordered that the defendant be remanded in custody.

It was whereas nonetheless in detention that he appeared earlier than the Adamawa State Jail Delivery Committee chaired by the state Chief Judge, Justice Hafsat Abdulrahaman.

He admitted to the committee that he dedicated the offence.