10 Men Arraigned For Allegedly Damaging FRSC Vehicles, Building.

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The police in Jos yesterday arraigned 10 men at an Upper Area Court, Kabong in Jos North Local Government of Plateau State, for allegedly destroying a building and vehicles of the Federal Road Safety Corps. (FRSC)

They are Abbas Sharanu, Saheed Lawal, Musa Jibrin, Mapi Musa, Bashir Ibrahim, Jethro Danas, Panam Hassan, Usman Umaru, Sanusi Sanusi and Auwal Abubakar, all of Bauchi Road, Jos.

The defendants were charged with criminal conspiracy, disturbance of public peace, unlawful assembly and voluntarily causing grievous hurt.

Police prosecutor Mr. E.A. Inegbenoise told the court that Bernard Tele of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) apprehended and brought the defendants to Nasarawa Gwom Police Station on February 26.

He alleged that the defendants, armed with cutlasses, knives and jerry cans of fuel, destroyed a building and cars at the FRSC office on Bauchi Ring Road.

The Magistrate, Mr. S.N. Dashe, admitted the defendants to bail at N50,000 each and a surety.

He adjourned the matter till May 22 for hearing.