A High court of Justice sitting at Isiokolo, Delta State has
sentenced Etanuwoma Ogheneoro, a 25- year old commercial motorcycle,
otherwise known as ‘okada’ rider, to death for robbing a fellow okada
rider.
Prosecution had told the court that the convicted armed robber, in
connivance with others at large on the 30th of January 2010 at Kokori
within the Isiokolo judicial division robbed a fellow okada man, Felix
Itirikpe of an undisclosed amount and other valuables, thereby “thereby
committed an offence punishable under section 6 (b) and 1 (2) (a) of the
Robbery and Firearms (Special Provisions) Act Cap R11 Volume 14 laws of
the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 2004″.
Prosecution led by Mrs. C.E. Eronmwon, deputy Director Ministry of
Justice called two witnesses to prove its case while the convict called
no witness but testified for himself.
According to prosecution, “the convict abandoned his own okada and
boarded another while pretending to a passenger but half way into the
journey at a lonely path he signaled to his gang members who came out
from hideout and they disposed their victim of the said motorcycle”.
He was however arrested with the aid of the local vigilante and later
handed over to the police and was equally identified in court by the
said victim during trial.
The trial judge, Justice A.O. Omamogho in delivering judgment
Tuesday stated that “prosecution has proved beyond reasonable doubt
ingredients of the offence against the accused.
“I disbelieved the evidence of the accused while I hold that
prosecution proved beyond reasonable doubt ingredients of the offence of
conspiracy against the accused the convict with two others now at large
robbed their victim of a SkyGo motorcycle while armed” What are we turning into?
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