By Gabriel Enogholase

BENIN—FIVE persons were, yesterday, arraigned before an Evboriaria Magistrate’s Court, Benin, by the Department of State Services, DSS, for allegedly stealing N2,090,000 belonging to one Suberu Shaibu.

The five suspects, Murktar Shuaibu, Kabiru Shuaibu, Abdul Momoh, Enesi Jamiu and Abubakar Lawal, were arraigned for stealing.

However, pleas of the suspects were not taken as they were alleged to have committed the offence on June 28 in Benin.

The prosecutor’s counsel, E. Aubrey, applied for the suspects to be remanded in the DSS custody, pending when the bail application was heard.

Presiding magistrate, Frank Idiake, said bail would be considered in the course of trial and remanded the suspects in DSS custody.

The case was adjourned to August 10.

Meanwhile, some beneficiaries of phase two of the amnesty programme have appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to pay their allowances allegedly stopped since March 2012.

The beneficiaries from Delta State, who protested at the premises of Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, in Benin yesterday, said they were warned not to protest in Delta State again.

Led by Pawpaw Julius and Gideon Ogbe, the protesters blame former head of the amnesty programme, Kingsley Kuku, for their plight.

They alleged that the few allowances they collected were not paid into their individual account, but into an account belonging to camp leaders.