Four Students Arrested In Jigawa State After Stealing Laptops Provided By Federal Government

Four final year students of Government Science and Technical College in Jigawa State have been arrested over the theft of 18 sets of mini laptop provided by the Federal Government and valued at about N1.4 million. Speaking to news men in Dutse over the weekend, the spokesperson of the Jigawa State Command of Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), DSC Adamu Shehu said, “The suspects are final year secondary school students. They stole 18 sets of Samsung mini laptops after they broke into their school computer room. The laptops which each valued at N75,000 were supplied to the school by the Federal government. They had already sold 12 of the laptops, each at the cost of N10, 000 at the Farm Centre, a mobile phone market in Kano. They were arrested when they came back to steal the remaining six of the laptops. The value of the 18 sets of the laptops put together is N1, 350, 000,”