Court sentences lecturer to death by hanging for armed robbery

A lecturer astatine the College of Health Technology, Ijero-Ekiti, Ekiti State, has been sentenced to decease by hanging by an Ondo State High Court for equipped robbery.

The defendant, Shittu Isiaka, was recovered blameworthy connected a two-count complaint of conspiracy and equipped robbery by the presiding judge, Justice O. M. Adejumo.

On the 3rd count, the tribunal acquitted and discharged Isiaka for allegedly endangering the beingness oregon wellness of the victim. The justice ruled that the prosecution failed to beryllium the allegation beyond a tenable doubt.

The suspect was archetypal arraigned earlier the tribunal connected November 26, 2018, connected a three-count complaint of conspiracy to perpetrate equipped robbery, equipped robbery and endangering life.

According to the prosecution, the suspect and different suspects inactive astatine large, successful 2017, robbed a commercialized driver, Olatunji Olowoyeye, of his Nissan Cabstar motortruck with registration fig XJ 214 KTU astatine gunpoint on Ibuji connected the Akure–Ilesha Motorway.

While informing the tribunal that the unfortunate was brought into Ogbara Oke by road patrol officers of the Nigeria Police, it said a constabulary witness, Inspector Kehinde Om...