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NIGERIA: SUPREME COURT FREES SOLDIER ON DEATH ROW AFTER 12 YEARS

July 1, 2024:

The Supreme Court on June 28, 2024 discharged and acquitted a Nigerian Army Sergeant, Akawu Bala from the death sentence imposed on him by the General Court Martial of the Nigerian Army.
While delivering judgment in an appeal filed at the Supreme Court on March 16, 2017, by Bala, Justice Helen Ogunwumiju discharged him from the death penalty.
Respite came the way of the embattled army sergeant when the five-man panel of justices unanimously discharged him after spending 12 years in Kaduna Correctional Centre waiting for ratification of the death sentence passed on him.
The Apex Court rejected the arguments of the army’s lawyer and thereafter ordered the immediate release of the convict from the correctional centre where he had been on remand since 2012.
Ogunwumiju agreed with Reuben Atabo, counsel to Bala that the Court of Appeal ought to have discharged the accused person having voided his trial and declared it a nullity.
She subsequently invoked section 193 of the Armed Forces Act 2014 and set the convict free adding that the ordinary meaning of section 193 of the Armed Forces Act 2014 is that the accused person can no longer stand another trial.
The Nigerian Army accused Bala of shooting one Isa Mohammed on December 9, 2012 when he was attached to the African Petroleum Station at Sabon Tasha, Kaduna with an AK47 gun.
The victim of the gunshot was said to have died on December 10, 2012, at Saint Gerald’s Catholic Hospital in Kaduna.
Following his indictment, he was put on trial on a murder charge punishable under section 106 of the Armed Forces Act 2014 before the General Court Martial on two count.
He was found guilty of murder and subsequently sentenced to death by hanging.
However, on Feb. 17, 2017, his appeal against the death penalty was upheld by the Court of Appeal, Kaduna division, on the ground that the charge sheet upon which he was tried and convicted was not signed by a General Commanding Officer as required by law.
Justice Obietonbara Kalo who read the Court of Appeal’s lead judgment declared the process of the trial and conviction of the Sergeant as a nullity but however refused to discharge him from the nullified trial, prompting further appeal to the Supreme Court.
Bala’s lead Counsel, Atabo, had argued on behalf of the convict that having declared the trial of his client, a nullity, the Court of Appeal ought to have made a consequential order to discharge the accused person from the flawed trial.
He drew the attention of the apex court to section 193 of the Armed Forces Act 2014 which prohibited the retrial of any military personnel after his trial has been voided and set aside.
The Nigerian Army through its lead counsel, Isaac Udoka vehemently objected to the arguments of the defence appellant and prayed that the apex court should order the retrial of the convict in the interest of justice.
Bala had in his defence claimed that he fired a shot at Isa Mohammed and one other person when they were walking towards him in the dark at the African Petroleum Station.
He equally claimed that his order for them to go back was rebuffed prompting him to fire at them before they could capture him.
The convict claimed that he fired the gun at the two men because it was during the peak of Boko Haram activities in Kaduna that they were walking towards him in the dark.

(Source: NAN, 28/06/2024)

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