A Delta State High Court sitting in Akwukwu-Igbo
has sentenced one Vincent Okwekwu to death by
hanging for robbing his victims of a handset and
N10,000 at gunpoint. The court found Okwekwu
guilty of three counts bordering on conspiracy to
commit armed robbery.
He was sentenced to death by hanging for the
offence of conspiracy, while he got 21-year-jail
term for each of the other two counts.
The prosecution team from the Department of
Public Prosecutions had told the court that
Okwekwu, on November 1, 2009, with two others
now at large, had broke into the apartments of
their victims, Ofoyeju Peter and Tietie Moses, and
robbed them of N10, 000 and a handset while
armed with a gun and a cutlass.
The crime was said to have taken place at
Umueha quarters, Ibusa.
The victims were said to have raised the alarm
that attracted members of a vigilance group in the
area, which led to Okwekwu’s arrest.
The convict had pleaded not guilty to the three
counts when the charges were read to him by the
court clerk during his arraignment.
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