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  • Kidnappers to die by hanging in Ondo – Govt

    Kidnappers to die by hanging in Ondo – Govt

    Kidnappers found guilty in the state will face the death penalty by hanging, the Ondo State Government has said.

    The government also said that buildings and facilities used by kidnappers in committing crimes would be demolished after following due process in the court.

    The Attorney General and State Commissioner for Justice, Kayode Ajulo, SAN, disclosed this during a news briefing shortly after the State Executive Council meeting on Saturday in Akure.

    Ajulo explained that the anti-kidnapping law would be reviewed by the Ondo State House of Assembly, which will prescribe the death penalty for kidnappers by hanging.

    He said the council was also concerned about the spate of cultism in the state and would do everything necessary to deal with the situation decisively.

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    He said the penalty for kidnappers in the state would now be death by hanging after reviewing the law through the state House of Assembly.

    “The governor, being a lover of the rule of law, would not go the way it’s being done in other states, without following necessary court due process.

    “We should know that we have investors coming to the state, and as part of measures to ensure we encourage them that they and their investment are safe,” he said.

    Also speaking, Special Adviser on Infrastructure, Lands, and Housing, Abiola Olawoye, said the executive also approved the installation of 6000 solar-powered street lights across the three senatorial districts.

    Olawoye said the construction of a 24.75km dual carriageway from Okitipupa to Igbokoda Jetty was also approved at the meeting.

    He also disclosed that the council approved the construction of a 6.7km dual carriageway from Supare Junction–Akungba–Ikare road in Akoko.

    The Special Adviser on Union Matters and Special Duties, Mr Bola Taiwo, said that the state government had approved the selection process of Olu of Okeigbo by the warrant chiefs.

  • Two to die by hanging for murder, armed robbery

    Two to die by hanging for murder, armed robbery

    • Woman bags 21-year jail term

    Justice F.O Enenmo, presiding over a Delta High Court in Kwale Judicial Division has in separate judgments convicted two for murder and armed robbery and a woman 21 years imprisonment with hard labour for murder.

    In the case marked (HCK/13C/2021), Justice Enenmo convicted Izagwu Obodo, who on 21/8/ 2021 shot to death Nonso Dibia in Umu-Itchi Community.

    While the prosecution led by C. O. Onoberhie-Oberuomo called three witnesses and tendered various exhibits, the defendant testified without calling any witness.

    In his judgment, Justice Enenmo held the defendant guilty and sentenced him to death by hanging.

    Also, Justice Enenmo, convicted Mr Bright Ossai to death for robbing Hyacinth Abandi of his Daystar motorcycle while armed with a gun at Owessi Street, Kwale, Ndokwa West LGA.

    According to the prosecution, he was caught on the spot after the victim raised the alarm. The police rescued the victim and recovered the gun from the robber.

    The court heard that the Police recovered another motorcycle he (Bright Ossai) had earlier robbed while armed and sold to Mr Ebele Pius at Ossissa, Ndokwa East LGA.

    Two witnesses testified while the defendant testified but did not call any witness.

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    The 1st defendant Bright Ossai was sentenced to death by hanging. Mr Ebele Pius bagged 10 years imprisonment with hard labour or a fine of N500,000,000.

    Also in the case marked (HCK/57C/2022.) between State and Egoyibo Ugbomem, Justice Enenmo sentenced Egoyibo Ugbomen who was charged with the murder of Chukwemeka Nkere on 29/8/2021 to 21 years jail term.

    The court heard that Egoyibo reported at Aboh Police station that the deceased committed suicide by hanging on a ceiling but the autopsy report showed a blunt force injury on the chest wall.

    The prosecution called three witnesses while the 1st defendant (Egoyibo Ugbomen) testified by calling two witnesses.

    Justice Enenmo convicted her and sentenced her to 21 years imprisonment with hard labour.

    He ruled that the time convict spent in custody during the period the trial lasted to be put into consideration.

  • Killer of human rights lawyer Fadipe to die by hanging

    Killer of human rights lawyer Fadipe to die by hanging

    Oluwaseun Oladapo, 27, who killed human rights lawyer, Kunle Fadipe, has been sentenced to death.

    Justice Oluwatoyin Ipaye of an Ikeja High Court sentenced Oladapo to death yesterday by hanging by the neck, for the death of the human rights lawyer, Fadipe.

    Justice Ipaye, in her judgment  found Oladapo guilty of a five-count charge offence of murder, armed robbery and assault occasioning harm.

    Justice Ipaye said: “On count one, you Oluwaseun Oladapo, is to be hung by the neck till you are dead.

    “On count two, you Oluwaseun Oladapo is to be hung by the neck till you are dead.

     ”On count three, you Oluwaseun Oladapo, is to be hung by the neck till you are dead.

     ”On count four, you Oluwaseun Oladapo is sentenced to three years in prison.

     ”On count five, you Oluwaseun Oladapo is sentenced to three years in prison.

     ”The terms of imprisonment of counts four and five is that they should run consecutively.

     ”This is the judgment of the court. May the Lord forgive your soul.”

    Earlier, counsel to the convict, Mr. Worer Obuagbaka, had  pleaded for mercy on behalf of his client.

    But, the prosecutor, Mrs O.A Olugasa said: “the deceased was not given a second chance by the convict. His children were also not given a second chance to have their father with them.

    Oladapo allegedly murdered the lawyer on July 4, 2014, at about 3 a.m. at his residence, located at No. 1 Harmony Estate, Ifako-Ijaiye, Iju, Lagos.

    The prosecution was led by Mr Adeniji Kazeem, the Lagos State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice and Mrs Idowu Alakija, the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP).

    Oladapo was also charged with the murder of Mrs Cecelia Owolabi, the mother-in-law to the late Fadipe, but the charge of murder was commuted to assault occasioning harm by the court. Justice Ipaye said: “The prosecution did not prove a direct link between the actions of the defendant and the death of Madam Cecelia Owolabi.

    During the trial, the wife of the late lawyer, Mrs Kemi Fadipe, in her testimony gave a graphic narration of the events of the night of the murder.

    Kemi, a school proprietress, said: “My husband came in late from the office at 10pm and he was preparing for a flight to Abuja the following day. We both had retired to our bedroom.

    “Our home is a five – bedroom duplex and there was no electricity that night, the home was well lit because the generator was on.

     ”At 11.45pm, power was restored and my son, Folahanmi went to put off the generator. A few minutes after he left, he came running upstairs screaming for help.

     ”He had a wound on his head and was being pursued by the defendant who was armed with a knife.

     ”The commotion alerted my husband and I and we rushed to the anti-room upstairs where we saw the defendant and Folahanmi.

    “We knelt down to plead with him and my husband instructed me to get a white envelope containing cash from the jacket of his suit.

     ”When the envelope was handed over to the defendant, he was dissatisfied and demanded for laptops and phones and we told him those items were downstairs.

    “He, for no reason, lunged at Folahanmi with a knife and my husband stepped in to save him and he was stabbed in his neck and his chest.”

    She said after her husband was stabbed, Oladapo ran downstairs where he unfortunately encountered her mother.

    “My mother came out from her bedroom downstairs to investigate the source of the commotion and the defendant ran into her, stabbing her in the chest.”

     “I, the maid and my sister struggled with him in the living room downstairs, he was hit on the head with a stabilizer, but he was behaving in a wild and crazy manner and very strong and hard to subdue.

    “My husband and Folahanmi ran out to get help, but my husband collapsed in the premises. But Folahanmi got help from the security guard of the estate who subdued the defendant by shooting him with a gun.”

    She said that Fadipe was rushed to a hospital where he gave up the ghost at 4am, her mother who came to Lagos from Ibadan for an eye operation was discharged from the hospital, but died in Ibadan from the shock and trauma of the incident two weeks later.

    A pathologist, Dr Sunday Soyemi in his testimony, revealed that Fadipe was rapid and severe blood loss caused by the severe cut of the left jugular vein.

    However, Oladapo, while testifying in Yoruba language in his defence, denied committing the offence.

    According to him, on the night of the murder, he left a viewing centre to go to his home and he had to take a shortcut through Harmony Estate.

    “When I got to the Harmony Estate, an altercation occurred between me, the security guard and four men, they beat me up, subdued me and shot at my leg.

    “I fainted and woke up the hospital, I fainted again and woke up four days later at the police station,” he said.

    But the trial judge, Justice Ipaye, discountenanced his defence and sentenced the convict as charged.

  • School driver to die by hanging for killing colleague with screwdriver

    Justice Sedoten Ogunsanya of an Ikeja high Court yesterday sentenced a school bus driver, Godwin Etute, 32, to death by hanging.

    Etute was condemned to death for killing a colleague, Miss Tolulope Adisa, with a screwdriver for insulting him.

    The driver, an indigene of Edo State and the deceased, who assisted him in guarding the pupils while he drives, were employees of Value Land Nursery and Primary School at 13 Lateef Lasisi Street, Egbe, Lagos.

    The prosecutors, Adebayo Haroun and M. M Balogun, told the court that the convict was employed barely eight months before the incident.

    He was said to have committed the crime on January 27, 2012 around 6am behind Aris Hotel, Egbe Lagos.

    According to Haroun, the convict, who claimed to have endured insults from the deceased, took her in the bus to a solitary place and killed her.

    The prosecution said on getting to the place, he ordered her out of the bus and stabbed her viciously on the left side of her neck with a screwdriver.

    Haroun said the covict dragged Adisa’s body into the bus and dumped her behind Aris Hotel.

    The convict, he said, sped off to wash off the blood stains on him and  the bus.

    The body, the prosecution said,  was found by a lawyer who reported the matter at Ikotun Police Station.

    The prosecution said: “Onlookers, present at the crime scene to identify the body, also found a shirt stained with blood hidden, at a corner, which was identified as belonging to the driver during investigation”.

    Haroun said the convict admitted committing the crime in his confessional statement to the police.

    In her judgement, Justice Ogunsanya held that the prosecution proved its case beyond reasonable doubt.

    The judge found the convict guilty, saying there is a direct link between him and the blood soaked shirt.

  • Barber to die by hanging for robbery

    Delta State High Court sitting at Ogwashi-Uku has sentenced a barber, Stephen Amamife Adim, who was a member of a four-man robbery gang, to death by hanging

    Adim was arraigned on a three-count of conspiracy to commit robbery and two counts of robbery.

    He was found guilty on two counts and sentenced to death by hanging as the law prescibes.

    The court said: “The law provides a mandatory sentence on the charges and the court does not have the powers to mitigate the sentence. The sentence of the court upon you is that you be hanged on the neck until you be dead, may God have mercy on your soul.”

    The prosecution told the court that the convict, with others at large, including Emeka John Nzedunor, who escaped from prison, on December 7, 2010, at Ogwashi-Uku, robbed Chidibere Christian Orji of one phone, a gold necklace belonging to his wife and N46,000.

    The prosecution added that the accused and his gang pretended to be looking for a herbal mixture but instead he pointed a gun at the pharmacist and his workers and ordered them to lie down and surrender their money, phones and other valuables.

    In his statement, the accused confessed that his gang robbed a filling station, another pharmaceutical shop and several residents.

  • Varsity student to die by hanging

    Makurdi High Court on Tuesday sentenced a 100-Level Sociology student of the Benue State University to death by hanging for robbery.

    Justice Adam Onum held that he was satisfied with Jacob Atongo’s confession and found him guilty.

    Onum sentenced the accused to death by hanging, insisting that the sentence prescribed under the law for the offence must be followed.

    Atongo conspired with two others and robbed Stephen Akuma and several others at gunpoint on June 26, last year.

    The convict and his accomplices dispossessed Akuma of his Toyota Camry car and other victims of valuables, including money.

    He also attacked Judges’ Quarters, Makurdi, on July 3, last year and robbed 15 people, dispossessing them of various items and money at gun point.

    The offences contravened the Robbery and Firearms Laws.

    During the proceedings, the accused pleaded not guilty to the charges and testified for himself with one witness called by his counsel.

    The prosecution called seven witnesses and tendered several exhibits, which included two statements made by the convict to the police.

    In the statements, according to the prosecution, the convict confessed to the crimes.

    But counsel to the accused E.Z. Agbakor argued that the prosecution failed to prove the case against his client.

    Agbakor told the court that the accused did not make the statement tendered in court voluntarily, insisting that he was tortured and forced to confess to the offences.

    He submitted that several “material inconsistencies and contradictions existed, which cast reasonable doubt on the case of the prosecution.”

    The counsel pointed out that there was no identification parade conducted on the accused, and urged the court to discharge and acquit his client.

    Prosecuting Counsel Mrs Moji Sule submitted that the prosecution had established every charge against the accused based on the strength of his statements.

    Sule argued that there was no need for an identification parade where the accused had identified himself by the commission of the crimes.