Ekiti High Court Sentences Man To Death For Murder
Ekiti State High Court, sitting in Ado Ekiti, has sentenced one man to death by hanging for strangulating a man, Kareem Adu, over a motorcycle.
The man, Ismaila Ojo, was charged to court for murder which he committed on May 13, 2018, and was found guilty.
Justice Olusegun Ogunyemi said that having carefully considered and weighed the evidence adduced before the court, it was clear that the defendant caused the death of the deceased by holding and pressing his neck and throat.
Justice Ogunyemi said, “On the whole, I find the defendant guilty as charged. You (the defendant) are hereby sentenced to be hanged on the neck until you die.”
The police prosecutor, Inspector Tunde Arowosola, had earlier told the court that one Agnes Adu came to the station with the complaint that her husband had been killed at Odo-Uro by one Ismaila Ojo over an ownership disputation and tussle in respect of a motorcycle.
The prosecutor said the woman alleged that the defendant (Ojo) strangulated the deceased.
Also, a policeman, Inspector, Lasisi Bashiru, who testified before the court, said, “The defendant confessed to the crime that on May 13, 2018, when he was taking his bath, Adu (the deceased) came to take a motorcycle which he parked in front of his house.
“The defendant said that after finishing his bath, he went to Adu’s house and met him sleeping. The defendant, however, claimed that he neither intended nor caused Adu’s death as the two of them merely fought, while none of them carried or used any weapon or hard object during the fight.”
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