Two sentenced to death for armed robbery, murder of man in Gombe

A Gombe State High Court has sentenced 2 men, Buhari Sule and Muktari Ali Hilami, to decease by hanging for equipped robbery and the execution of 35-year-old Murtala Rabi’u.

Justice Muhammad-Auwal Haruna, who delivered the judgement astatine Court No. 5 connected Wednesday, convicted the 2 men of transgression conspiracy, equipped robbery and culpable homicide.

The lawsuit followed an onslaught connected Rabi’u connected September 18, 2025, astatine Garin Galadima colony adjacent Pindiga successful Akko Local Government Area of Gombe State.

According to the prosecution, Sule and Hilami conspired, equipped themselves with sticks and hoes, and attacked Rabi’u earlier taking his mobile telephone and N7,400 successful cash.

State counsel, Abdulkadir Ibrahim, told the tribunal that the defendants agreed to onslaught Rabi’u, equipped themselves with unsafe weapons and dumped his assemblage successful a maize workplace aft the attack.

“The defendants agreed among themselves astatine Garin Galadima village, equipped themselves with unsafe weapons and attacked the deceased, Murtala Rabi’u,” Ibrahim told the court.

The prosecution said the defendants took Rabi’u’s Itel keypad phone, which had nary SIM card, and shared the N7,400 aft dumping his assemblage successful the farm.

“The sum of N7,400 cash, which they shared among themselves aft dumping his corpse successful a maize farm,” the authoritative said.

The defendants pleaded not blameworthy aft the charges were work and expla...