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How can a 10 year old be pregnant?

I don't think I can believe this tho.

ProPlay:
- Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun rules that the circumstantial evidence relied to convict and sentence the one Otokoto suspect by the lower courts was not sufficient

- She says that an accused person told lies does not make him guilty

The Supreme Court set aside the judgment of the Court of Appeal in Owerri of 2012, which upheld the death sentence of the trial court

The Supreme Court on Friday, May 18, discharged and acquitted, Alban Ajaegbu, one of the accused in the celebrated case of the ritual killing of an 11-year-old boy, Ikechukuwu Okoronkwo, in 1996 in Owerri, Imo.

The killing of the boy, a hawker, jolted Owerri, stoking riot and destructions by enraged residents that lasted for days in the city.

In her lead judgment, Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, held that the circumstantial evidence relied on to convict and sentence the appellant by the lower courts was not sufficient.

“It must be restated here that the appellant was charged with murder and the prosecution has the burden of proving beyond reasonable doubt that it was the act of the appellant that caused the death of the deceased.

“The appellant does not have the burden to prove his innocence. The lower court held that the defence of the appellant raised a lot of suspicions.

“The law is well settled that suspicion, no matter how grave, cannot take the place of proof.”

She said that the assumption of the lower courts that because the appellant worked in the hotel for 17 years, he should have known who owned the farm that Okoronkwo was buried in, was wrong.

“Suspicion cannot take the place of legal proof. That the appellant worked in the hotel for 17 years and didn’t know who owned the farm cannot make him guilty.

“The law is settled, that an accused person told lies does not make him guilty.”

The apex court held that the prosecution failed to prove its case beyond reasonable doubt.

The court, therefore, set aside the judgment of the Court of Appeal in Owerri of 2012, which upheld the death sentence of the trial court and acquitted and discharged Ajaegbo.

The judgment was read by Justice Ejembi Eko, and the other four justices on the panel agreed with the judgment.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Okoronkwo, a groundnut seller, was on September 19, 1996, lured into a hotel, called Otokoko in Owerri and beheaded.

Okoronko was reportedly given a bottle of Coca-Cola that had been spiked with drug before he was killed.

The hotel was owned by one Vincent Duru, who became known as Chief Otokoto during the long trial, following his not guilty plea after his arrest and arraignment.

Besides beheading Okoronkwo, the suspects, who were seven in number reportedly, removed different organs from his body, including his genitals before burying the corpse in a shallow grave.

The crime was discovered when 32-year-old Innocent Ekeanyanwu, left the hotel to deliver the head in a polythene bag to a client.

An okada rider, who gave Ekeanyanwu a ride discovered the fresh human head and alerted the police, leading to the arrest of Ekeanyanwu.

In another report, 87 passengers travelling along Birnin-Gwari-Kaduna highways have been reportedly kidnapped by armed bandits operating in the area.

Vanguard reports that the bandits selected their victims from their look and dressing and herded them into the bush.

The kidnappings were confirmed by the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) in the area, which cautioned its members from plying the route pending deployment of troop and other security agencies.

Source: https://www.naija.ng/amp/1170428-supreme-court-acquits-otokoto-suspect-alban-ajaegbu-spending-22-years-jail.html

cc: Mynd44, OAM4J

If telling lies does not pre-supposes guilt, then stealing is indeed not corruption.

regards,

madridguy:
I want to become royal too any single lady inside Buckingham Palace?

Ask goggle bro.

I doubt tho. Enough Britico males to go round!!

Where's the open confrontation??

EricT:
Thanks sir, but I got something like 6PK .... in the market. So I want to know that 4 digit sir

If you live in Lagos, people in Ladipo knows the exact one that matches.

Part Number: 5040343K1

seen

Because its you, this might reach the promised land.

BTW, I have been seeing this a new meme on NL

I hear strange things

But the Police in Nigeria says pepper spray is forbidden item to be kept by Nijas.

Click like if you feel its proper for our Police to classify Pepper Spray as illegal

Click share if it should be illegal

When dem no dey gree to open the bus in peace.

hmmm.

Let me read what other people would say.. I'll summarize.

Good one tho.

In the other hand...

Cross over to APC and be washed by the blood and be thou clean and spotless!!

RIP Aisha.

I remember you always radiant face when we were serving in Yola, Adawawa State.

God bless and keep your children left behind!!

Error due to parallax.

A white cock would suffice for the thanksgiving

just in case

Noted.

Upon all the money they proscribe to themselves, they cannot get a proper door and get the burglary rail-gate re-painted.

Senior ogbologbo boiz

There is a sinister reason.

Why raising a panel when a memo would do.

Meanwhile Saraki is said to head the panel who is also the man at the centre of the storm


Click LIKE if you think it is proper for Saraki to head the panel

Click SHARE if you oppose that move.

Its hitting on him

Its heating on him

No difference

Hemanwel:
culhso bro! CAMA is an Act; a Statute. It contains all the laws/regulations guiding the operational activities of companies/one man businesses in Nigeria.

CAC, on the other hand, is the government agency charged with the responsibility to register companies and businesses. You dig??

Yeah. I dig. In fact, I dug!

Is this saying CAMA is efficiently replacing CAC?

dynicks:
The answer to what u asked is right before you....Now go back nd read through again but this time slowly....

It worked

espn:
This is too risky....

O di kwa risky

Oh My God.

RIP to the dead.

May God grant the families the fortitude to bear the loss.

Screenshots of the twitter account is very alarming but not graphical.

He has reconstructed the pedals and pivots on the Vanagon he is driving to fit his disability and adapt to his size and stature.

See pix

Hmmm Nice move by Omo-Agege

Welcome to the age

Bad belle full everywhere. Why didn't Nairaland bring this topic while the game was on? Now the game ended, they're saying rubbish!

Lemme ask this #Lazy question pls.

Is obtaining a Chinese citizenship worthwhile?

That's insulting.

adaksbullet:
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Within 1hrs, 100mb his finish





Mine mutileaks sub his muah

You're the bullet, bro