Three Sentenced To Death In Ekiti For Armed Robbery

An Ado-Ekiti High Court, Ekiti State, on Friday,  sentenced three men to death by hanging for armed robbery and discharged and acquitted one of the accused.

The convicts were; Tunde Abe, Monday Eze and Nonso Vincent, while the discharged and acquitted accused was Hygimes Obunisire.

The judge, Justice Mosun Abodunde, said the prosecution had credible, cogent and convincing evidences before the court based on the oral confession of the accused persons.

Bodunde said that the prosecution witness sufficiently identified the accused persons as those who robbed her, but said that Obunisire was not among them.

She claimed that the prosecution had not been able to prove the offence of armed robbery and conspiracy against Obunisire.

The judge said that the findings of the court was not only based on the confessional statements made by three convicts, but also looked outside the confessional statements.

Bodunde said the convicts confessed that Obunisire did not follow them to rob and was not a member of the gang.

She, thereafter, found three convicts guilty as charged, holding that they should be hanged till life was out of them.

“May God have mercy on your soul,” Bodunde held.

The state counsel, Mr Ade Adeyemi, said the accused committed the offence on May 21, 2003 at Kajola Street, Ado-Ekiti.

Adeyemi said the convicts, armed with weapons such as guns and cutlasses, robbed one Chuks Ugbede the sum of N84,000 and items like clothing and shoes valued at N6,000.

He added that they also robbed one Okereke Okafor of No. 21, Ajibade Street, Ado-Ekiti, the sum of N41,000 and Jumoke Adeita the sum of N35,000.