DELTA State High
Court sitting in Asaba has sentenced a 29-year-old security guard to 50
years imprisonment for robbing an Asaba resident of the sum of N105,000
and an ATM card at gun point.
This came as another court sitting at Ogwashi-Uku handed down 10 years
jail term to a widow for arson.
Justice C. O.
Ogisi of High Court 5, Asaba, in committing the security guard, Kennedy
Silas, to half a century in prison, stated that the court was convinced
with the overwhelming evidence against the accused.
He sentenced him to 25 years for count one and another 25 years for
count two of the charge and ordered that the sentences should run
concurrently.
Prosecution had
told the court that “on or about the 28th day of November 2007, at 17
Ekelie Street, off Direct Labour Agency Road, Asaba, within Asaba
judicial division, robbed one Obiogbolu Alexander of the sum of
N105,000, three Nokia handsets, one Motorola handset, one Sony digital camera and an ATM card of First Bank Plc, while armed with a gun.”
Addressing the
court, the prosecuting counsel, Ejiro Akpimegin, told the court that
there were incontrovertible facts linking the convict to the offence of
conspiracy to rob, armed robbery and stealing.
On his part, the Ogwashi-Uku High Court judge, Justice T. O. Diai, said
he found the widow, who is also a food vendor, Mrs. Victoria Onwordi,
guilty of “willfully and unlawfully” setting the house of one Moses
Onwuyali on fire on December 28, 2011, on the allegation that she was
reliably informed that Onwuyali confessed before the Ubulu-Uku palace
that he was responsible for the death of her late husband.
Prosecution had told the court that the widow mobilised her children and
others still at large to set the house of Onwuyali ablaze at Abuedo
quarters, Ubulu-Uku.
