MOHAMMED AUWAL & 3 OTHERS V. FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA

IDRIS, J.S.C. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This is an appeal against the judgment of the Court of Appeal, Jos Judicial Division delivered Coram Honourable Justice Ibrahim Shata Bdliya, J.C.A, Honourable Raphael Chikwe Agbo, J.C.A. and Honourable Justice Peter Olabisi Ige, J.C.A. in Appeal No. CA/J/183c/2011 on the 27th day of March, 2013, wherein the court below affirmed the conviction and sentencing of the appellants by the trial Federal High Court in its judgment delivered on the 17th December, 2010.

The appellants were arraigned before the Federal High Court, Jos Judicial Division alongside 11 others on a three-count charge which is reproduced hereunder as follows:

Count One

That you, Mohammed Auwal “M”, Ibrahim Yusuf “M” Adamu Hassan “M”, Abdulkarim Mohammed “M”, Suleman Jibrin “M, Musa Abdulmuni “M” Adamu Dauda “M”, Isah Bello “M”, Isah Dauda “M”, Ibrahim Jibrii “M”on or about the 8th day of March, 2010 in Kaduna village and its environs in Mangu Local Government Area of Plate…