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Policeman To Be Hanged For Murder by Nicolars(m): 1:45pm On Sep 29, 2015 |
A Rivers
State High
Court has
sentenced
one
Inspector
Samuel
Timothy
of the Nigeria Police to death by hanging for shooting
and killing a sachet water dealer, Onyekachi
Nwasouba.
The court’s ruling is coming about five years after
Nwasouba was murdered by the police at about 5am
on November 10, 2010 at No. 34, Old Aba Road, Port
Harcourt.
Nwasouba, who was a graduate of Industrial
Chemistry, was branded an armed robber by the
police while he was on his way to distribute his
products to customers within the Port Harcourt
metropolis.
The deceased was shot dead by a team of policemen,
led by Timothy, at the front of his residence, even
after he (Nwasouba) shouted to the hearing of the
policemen that he was only a pure water producer
and not an armed robber.
Delivering his judgment on Monday, the trial judge,
Justice Adolphus Enebeli, declared that the convict
(Timothy) demonstrated an act of inhumanity
through his action.
Justice Enebeli, whose ruling took about three hours,
however, discharged and acquitted one Corporal
Moses, who had been standing trial together with the
convict.
The judge said that based on the testimonies of
witnesses, including members of the patrol team in
the case, the convict was an “inhuman, trigger-happy
policeman, who engages in murder; a hater of
humankind and a merciless killer.”
Explaining that the killing of the sachet water seller
by the convict was deliberate, Justice Enebeli,
maintained that Timothy should die by hanging.
The trial judge added that based on the law and the
circumstances surrounding the death of the graduate
of Industrial Chemistry, he had no power to reduce
the sentence.
“According to Section 319 of the Constitution of the
Federal Republic of Nigeria, I do not have the power
to reduce your sentence. That you, Inspector Timothy
Samuel be hanged on your neck until you are dead,”
he held.
Justice Enebeli stated that Corporal Moses was
discharged and acquitted because it became clear
that the policemen on duty never conspired to kill the
victim (Nwasouba). |
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