NIGERIA: ABUJA COURT SENTENCES FOUR MEN TO DEATH BY HANGING

March 29, 2022:

The Zuba High Court sitting at the Gwagwalada High Court Division, Abuja, has sentenced four men to death by hanging for armed robbery, Punch reported on 28 March 2022.
The convicts -Tochukwu Uwalaka, Gideon Igbabo, Miracle Amaechi, and Jamil Abdulsalam, had lured the 10-year-old daughter of their victim at gunpoint to get access into his house at Kuje District in Abuja, on 23 August 2016.
The suspects, thereafter, attacked the victim and his family with dangerous weapons, and carted away valuables which included a 2006 Xterra Jeep, a 2008 Toyota Camry, two HP laptops, phones, a digital camera, cash sum of N200,000, jewellery and other valuables.
The matter was transferred to the Intelligence Response Team of the Force Intelligence Bureau where operatives swiftly apprehended one of the suspects who led them to his three accomplices.
A statement on 27 March by the acting force spokesman, CSP Muyiwa Adejobi, said, “The honourable Justice Ebong, after hearing evidences from the prosecution, the defendants and the respective witnesses, affirmed the guilt of the defendants and sentenced the four suspects to death by hanging for the offences of criminal conspiracy, armed robbery, house trespass, and assault in contravention of the provisions of the Robbery and Firearms (Special Provision) Act, 2004, and the Penal Code Law.”