Four cattle rustlers, Danjuma Yale 28, Samuel Manpin 24, Silvanus Danwesh 25, and Pansum Dungse, 27, were on Friday arraigned in an upper Area Court, Jos, over alleged conspiracy and theft of 10 cows.
The cows belong to one, Malam Yakubu Musa of Gindiri village in Mangu Local Government Area.
The four accused persons who reside at Mangu Local Government headquarters in Plateau, appeared before Malam Mustapha Hassan on a two-count charge of conspiracy and theft.
The Police Prosecutor, Mr Edwin Ochei, had told the court that the accused persons conspired and stole the 10 cows.
Ochei said that the accused committed the offence on Feb. 7, at about 2 p.m. while the owner of the cows was away.
“The accused conspired and snatched the 10 cows from the small boy to whom the owner entrusted the cows before he left for his trip.
“When the owner of the cows came back from his trip on Feb. 8 he found that the cows had been stolen, and he reported the matter to the police in Mangu town.
“The cows were later traced to the house of one, Dahiru Bello who has bought some of them at the cost of N225, 000.
“Some of the cows were also traced to the town’s abattoir in the hands of butchers that have already slaughtered them,“ the prosecutor said.
Ochei said that during police investigation it was discovered that the accused persons were those who stole the cows and sold them out.
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