Tricycle ticket seller sentenced to death for armed robbery in Akwa Ibom

An Akwa Ibom State High Court sitting successful Ikot Ekpene has sentenced a tricycle summons seller, Iboro Sunday Akpan, to decease by hanging for equipped robbery.

Akpan was besides sentenced to beingness imprisonment for attempted murder.

Delivering judgement successful Charge No. HT/25C/2025, Justice Augustine D. Odokwo held that the prosecution proved its lawsuit beyond tenable uncertainty and convicted the suspect connected each the 3 counts.

The tribunal subsequently sentenced Akpan to 14 years imprisonment for conspiracy, beingness imprisonment for attempted execution and decease by hanging for equipped robbery, with the custodial sentences subsumed by the superior punishment.

Akpan, a autochthonal of Ikot Idaha successful Ikono Local Government Area, was prosecuted by the Akwa Ibom State Ministry of Justice implicit an equipped robbery onslaught that occurred successful the aboriginal hours of July 23, 2025, astatine Annex B Estate, Ikot Otor successful Ikot Ekpene.

During the trial, the prosecution’s main witness, Barr. Camillus Ben, testified that helium was awakened astatine astir 1:23 americium by a large bang astatine the property gross and confronted an unmasked intruder whom helium identified arsenic Akpan, a summons seller helium had known for years connected Umuah...