Police in Jigawa state have arrested four students of Government Science and Technical College, Karniya, for stealing 18 sets of mini laptops worth about N1.4 million.

Daily Trust reports that the spokesperson of Jigawa State Command of Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), DSC Adamu Shehu, confirmed this during the weekend.

The suspects: Shehu Abdulrazak, Abdullahi Suleman, Sani Abdulraham and Yakubu Abdullahi are between the ages of 15 and 17.

According to Shehu, 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,” he said.

Shehu further revealed that they had already sold about 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,” he added.