The Imo State High Court, Owerri Division, has resumed the trial of five suspects of allegedly kidnapping 20 National Youth Service Corps members and others while travelling to the orientation camp.
The State Security Service brought the suspects to court to continue their trial for abducting corps members and others along the Owerri-Onitsha road.
The corps members were travelling from Ibadan to orientation camps in the South-East and South-South when they were abducted.
The five suspects are facing charges of conspiracy, hostage-taking, abduction, and unlawful possession of firearms and ammunition.
On Tuesday that the suspects were arraigned before the state high court.
The suspects are Mohammed Ali, Usman Aliyu, Babangida Aliyu, Ibrahim Jiji and Aminu Haliru. They were earlier arrested in Rivers and Abia between October 10 and 14.
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