According to latest reports reaching our news desk this morning, an Ado-Ekiti High Court which has on Thursday sentenced two students and one other to de@th by hanging for robbery, murder and r@p£.
The judge, Justice Olusegun Ogunyemi, who gave the verdict at the conclusion of trial, disclosed that the convicts are Kolade Fowosere, who is a medical student;
And Blessing Owhorisi, also a student and Ojo Ogundare, a vulcaniser working in Ado-Ekiti.
While conveying his judgment, Justin Ogunyemi said that the evidences before the court was direct and unequivocal.
The Judge also said that the accused were convicted based on the confessional statements they made during investigation by Officers of the Law.
According to Justice Ogunyemi, who said that he found both of them guilty as charged, saying “the three accused persons should be hanged till life is out of them”
While the prosecuting State Counsel, Mr Gbenga Daramola, who disclosed during the court persecution, saying that the accused committed the offence on July 4, 2011 at Omisanjana quarters in Ado-Ekiti.
According to him, the offence breaches Section 319, 1 (2) (a) of the Robbery and Firearms (Special Provision) Act, cap RII, Vol. 14, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2014.
The Prosecuting Counsel also called upon seven other eye witnesses to prove his case, and the defence counsel, Mr Chris Omokhafe, called four witnesses to do same.
However, the state counsel went further to urged the court to resolve the case in favour of the State, based on the confessional statements made by the convicts in the course of investigation.
He said that the accused were said to have robbed at Ido-Ekiti, Omisanjana and Moferere in Ado-Ekiti.
He told the court that they also killed a police officer, Olusegun Olufowobi, popularly called “of London”, during their operation at Moferere on July 20, 2011.
He said the accused also raped a lady in the course of their operation.
However, also pleading his case with the court, the defence counsel, urged the court to resolve all doubts in the prosecution witnesses in favour of his clients.
He went on to say that the evidences which were given by the prosecution were mere hearsay, and that his clients should be discharged and acquitted.
But that was not the case, as they were arranged to be h@nged till life is no longer in them. May their soul rest in Peace.
Please shun crime, stop corruption, etc, the law will catch up with you one day, according to the judge, their first attack was done in 2011, and after three years, their sin caught up with them. Shun Crime and live a life that will make your God proud of you, Your parents, your brothers and sisters, your religion and your country.
Peace.