NIGERIA: COURT SENTENCE POLICE OFFICER TO DIE BY HANGING

08 October 2018 :

A Bayelsa state High Court VII sitting in Yenagoa on 5 October 2018 sentenced Cpl. Vincent Olama to death by hanging for extrajudicial killing.
In his judgment, Justice Nayai Aganaba, said Olama was found guilty of killing of a 17 -year-old, Innocent Kokorifa, in Okaka, Yenagoa, on August 18, 2016.

 
(Sources: theeagleonline.com.ng, 05/10/2018)

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