Agency Report

A Makurdi Magistrates’ Court on Thursday ordered that eight men be remanded in a correctional centre for allegedly kidnapping Benue Commissioner’s wife.

The police charged Samuel Ogbodo, Chidi Anekwe, Monday Anyigor, John Igwe, John Nwoke, Mathias Odoh, Matthew Eze and Iorhemen Yagba with criminal conspiracy, armed robbery and terrorism.

Magistrate Adah Odeh did not take the plea of the suspects for want in jurisdiction.

Odeh ordered that they should be remanded at the Federal Correctional Centre pending the legal advice.