Justice Jide
Falola of an Osun State High Court sitting in Okuku has sentenced two robbers
to death for stealing fowls.
The convicts,
Olowookere Segun and Morakinyo Sunday, were found guilty of forcefully breaking
into the house of one Mr. Balogun Tope, a police officer attached to Divisional
Police headquarters, Okuku, in April 2010 and carting away some of his
belongings.
The convicts
were charged with conspiracy, robbery and stealing contrary to Section 6(b) and
1(2)(a) of Robbery and Firearm (Special Provisions) Act, cap R 11 Laws of
Federation of Nigeria 2004 and Section (390)(1) Criminal Code Law, Cap 34, Laws
of Osun State, 2002.
The prosecution
team, led by the state Solicitor-General, Mrs Abiola Adewemimo, called six
witnesses and tendered several exhibits during the prosecution.
The prosecution
told the court that on November 13, 2010, men were sighted around Balogun’s
home armed with cutlass and a dane gun, and that while two of them were
arrested, others escaped.
The convicts
were said to have confessed that they stole the complainant’s fowls, adding
that they had been in his house before to steal. Adewemimo said: “They also stated that they
had earlier robbed Alhaja Umani Oyewo in her house and stole broilers, eggs and
kegs of vegetable oil from the house.”
In his judgment,
Justice Falola convicted them on only three counts: to death for conspiracy;
life sentence for robbery, and three years imprisonment for stealing.
Justice Falola
recommended that the governor can decide to commute the death sentence to 10
years imprisonment, considering the convicts’ ages.
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