HARSH: Student to die by hanging for stealing GSM handsets, recharge cards

Am not in any way supporting the atrocities of robbers but i didn't know people can be sentenced to death for stealing GSM handsets and recharge cards when politicians and leaders embezzeling billions of Naira are walking freely in the society and showing off their wealth to oppress Nigerians.

AN Effurun high court, has sentenced a 24 year old secondary school student, Moses Akatugba, to death by hanging for robbing GSM handsets and recharge cards, just as a commercial motorcyclist, popularly called ‘okada’ rider was also jailed 15 years imprisonment for robbing a female passenger of  her GSM handset.

Moses was convicted on a two-count charge of conspiracy and armed robbery contrary to section 6 (b) and punishable under section 1 (2) (a) of the Robbery and Firearms  (Special Provisions) Act Cap R11 Volume 14 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.

Prosecution told the court that the convict with others now at large “robbed one Mrs. Akpor Mazino of the sum of N113,930 cash, 3 GSM handsets, 54 various denomination of MTN recharge vouchers, 28 Econnet vouchers and 25 GLO vouchers valued over N100,000 at Number 30 NNPC Housing complex road,

Ekpan”.

The victim in her evidence gave a vivid account of how she was robbed of the items at her shop at gunpoint.

Source:Vanguardngr

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Okada Rider Sentenced To Death For Robbery

 A 27 year-old man, Oloche Omale was on Monday sentenced to death by hanging for criminal conspiracy and armed robbery by a Makurdi High court in Benue State. Omale was found guilty of conspiring with Analegh Donko, now deceased, to rob two women, Iveren Mbatamen and Hembadoon Dzege of their possessions at gun point in 2007.

Delivering his judgment, Justice Aondover Kaka’an, held that even though the convict claimed that it was the deceased that was an armed robber, he still conveyed him to his destination. Kaka’an regarded the convict’s claim of innocence as fake, adding that Omale was an accomplice in the crime.

“Besides, I watched the demeanour of the accused while he testified and he appeared to me capable of speaking from both sides of his mouth,’’ Kaka’an said.The judge, however, said that based on the plea of the convict, the court recommended to the committee on prerogative of mercy to give the case a pathetic consideration.

In their testimony, the victims said they were waiting for a taxi when the convict and his accomplice came on a motorcycle and dispossessed them of N81,190, two phones and handbags. They said in separate testimonies before the court that they raised alarm and the robbers immediately took off while, Nguemo Atii, assisted them in his car to apprehend them

The prosecution said the offence was punishable under sections 5(b) and 1(2) (a) of the Robbery and Firearms Act.

The convict, who had pleaded not guilty to the charges, did not call any witness. He however testified that he was only a motorcyclist conveying Donko but did not know that his passenger was a robber.

He explained to the prosecution, Mr Joshua Ityoyer when cross-examined that he picked Donko for N150 and was only waiting to give him the balance, and that was why he waited for him after he knew he was a robber. Ityoyer said that the convict was just trying hard to retract his confessional statement to the police.

According to him, his extra-judicial statement is at variance with his evidence and urged the court not to accept the evidence.Mr N.D.A. Emmanuel, Counsel to the convict, said that prosecution had failed to prove its case beyond reasonable doubt. He said the prosecution could not establish all the ingredients of the offence by leading cogent and credible evidence linking the convict with the crime.

Omale, however pleaded for leniency while he maintained that he did not commit the crime. The death of Donko who would have corroborated his story did little to save him as he got a death sentence.

 Source:InformationNigeria

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