Court Sentences Lecturer To Death For Armed Robbery In Ondo
Justice can be slow, but when it comes, it can land with crushing finality.
That was the outcome in Ondo State, where a court sentenced a lecturer, Shittu Isiaka, to death by hanging for armed robbery.
Delivering judgment, Justice Omolara Adejumo found Isiaka guilty of conspiracy to commit armed robbery and armed robbery over an attack that occurred on 5 July 2017 along the Akure-Ilesha Expressway.
The court heard that Isiaka and two accomplices, still at large, allegedly hired commercial driver Olatunji Olowoyeye to transport cocoa beans from Igbara-Oke, paid him ₦8,000 upfront, then later robbed him of his Nissan Cabstar vehicle at gunpoint.
According to the victim’s testimony, the suspects lured him into reversing into a bush near a primary school in Ibuji before attacking him, tying him up and abandoning him in the bush.
He was later rescued by police patrol officers and taken to hospital.
Although the court discharged and acquitted Isiaka on the third count of endangering life due to lack of medical evidence and eyewitness proof, Justice Adejumo held that the prosecution proved the armed robbery charges beyond reasonable doubt.
Isiaka was consequently sentenced to life imprisonment for conspiracy and death by hanging for armed robbery.
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