FOR allegedly robbing his victims of a mobile telephone and N10, 000 cash while armed with a gun, a 24-year-old man was on Monday sentenced to death by hanging by a Delta High Court at Akwukwu-Igbo, Oshimili North Local Council.

The convict, Vincent Okwekwu, was convicted of the offence of conspiracy to commit armed robbery, the substantive offence of armed robbery, which was reduced to a lesser offence of robbery.

The young accused who looked dejected after the judgment was, however, sentenced to death by hanging for the offence of conspiracy while he got 21 years jail term for each of the other two counts.

During the trial, prosecution from the Department of Public Prosecutions had explained that the unemployed robber had on or about November 1, 2009 with two others now at large broke into the flats of one Ofoyeju Peter and Tietie Moses at Umueha quarters, Ibusa, also in Oshimili North Local Council and robbed them of cash amounting to N10, 000 and a telephone handset while armed with a gun and a cutlass.

Nemesis caught up with them when his victims raised the alarm that attracted members of the vigilance group in the area that led to the arrest convict, as he and the other gang members tried to flee from the scene of the crime.

While Vincent was arrested, two other members of the gang, now at large, escaped into a nearby bush. Prosecution further told the Court that the accused, who was later handed over to the Police, admitted to have committed the crime in his voluntary statement but denied the charge as he pleaded not guilty to all the three count charge.



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Armed with a gun and cutlass........ so if he had killed the person for just 10k and handset, that is when we will know that robbing with gun is bad ba?


He lay his bed, let him sleep in it.

Naija which way?

Vote for change and all these will be over.

NO Pastor, Imam, Babalawo, Oba, Obi, Emir, Obong, Chief, Militant etc can tell me who to vote for, NEVER!....

I bear the brunt of unemployment, not the Pastor....

I suffer epileptic power supply, not the Imams.....

When my landlord increases house rent, the Oba will not send me money to augment it.....
When medical bills needs to be paid, I won't see the Obi....

When armed robbers show up in my neighborhood, the Emir won't be there to rescue me...

When time comes to pay exorbitant private school fees for my children because public schools that produced the likes of Soyinka, Chinua Achebe are derelict, no Militant will come to my rescue...

The roads leading to Obong's palace are bad, he has not done anything about it, how can he help me?

Exchange rate has plumeted while the economy worsened yet the Babalawo suffers in silence with me ad he is unable to use his juju to make our economic problems disappear...

My siblings and the children of the Chief who are graduates for the past 8 years have remained unemployed while he is powerless to help them...

So I alone will decide WHO IS MAKING ME GO THROUGH ALL
THESE HARDSHIP, AND USING MY PVC TO TERMINATE HIS TENURE, IF I DON'T LIKE HIS POOR HANDLING OF GOVERNANCE!

Nija justice

He's lucky to have gotten a sentence. Nigerians would have lynched him on a normal day

too harsh... Still wondering What will be the punishment of our own 'stealing is not corruption' thieves... Death by burning? No.. Na the same discharge and acquitted. God help us to get tinz right

I pity for our judge..

What can somebody gain from stealing another's person property

Vote change !
Vote buhari

What of Tinubu that has stolen billions of dollars & wantz to convert the entire Lagos State to his personal property...Why hasn't he held & sent to life imprisonment?

Death sentence for stealing only 10k?
Meanwhile some people are lying under oath, forging certificates and nothing has been done to them.
E no good o!

Nigeria

If you want to be a thief, be a real thief. What is worth doing is worth doing well. Look at our politicians milking us dry yet they go scot free but this one that stole 10k is getting a death sentence.
God bless Nigeria

Sentencing someone to death for conspiracy to commit armed robbery? Wat kind of messed up judicial system is this sef? This is just a simple case of burglary and armed robbery which should attract nothing less than 20 years

And the ones stealing Billions are being given Police Escorts for "Protection".

Bravo Nigerian "Immunity Clause, Judicial System and GEJ who has "rightly" brought it to our ears that "Ordinary stealing, our people will say it's Corruption."

Court jungle justice!

Sentenced to death for N10k and handset................

Yet Jonathan Goodluck and his people steal billions of Naira and roam about freely...

Dairz God Oooooooooooooooooo

Eleyi gidi gan oo (this one serious o)

This is why Jonathan said that stealing should be differentiated from corruption so that a person stealing government money should be tried as a thief not being glorified with lengthy complex corruption charges.

Stealing is not Corruption

poor man pikin wey steal maggi na dere face we dey see for crime fighter but rich man pikin wey steal billion we no dey see deir face for crime fighter .


smh for dis country


is stealing now a corruption?

justice should be for all and sundry.

But stealing is not corruption!

As much as I want to be empathetic, I can't be!

Anyone who's been a victim of robbery would tell you how traumatic it can be! Yes you are unemployed, should turning to crime be the answer?

There are a lot of people who aren't employed but are finding other honest means of making ends meet.

Great...armed with gun cutlass
This is small, prescribing double death sentence for him would have been better.
Well done Nigerian Judiciary....you have done well again
When compared with the government and politicians, the difference is that they are not armed. You simply surrender through tax payment and slush funds.

The government of Muhammadu BUhari would stop this when elected President.

Is death the punishment for stealing