Man to die by hanging for armed robbery.

An Abeokuta High Court, on Wednesday, sentenced one Nurudeen Monsuru to death by hanging for armed robbery.
Monsuru, who was arraigned on a two-count charge of conspiracy and armed robbery, had pleaded not guilty to the offences.
However, delivering judgment, Justice Ayokunle Rotimi-Balogun, said that all the evidence tendered had convinced the court beyond a reasonable doubt that the convict committed the offences.

She subsequently sentenced Monsuru to death by hanging.
At the trial, the Prosecution Counsel, Mrs Funmilayo Akinola, had told the court that the convict committed the offences on March 15, 2016, at about 9:00 pm. at Kere village on the Abeokuta/Lagos expressway.

She said that the convict and other still at large, conspired and robbed one Fatima Adedeji and other traders of their money and phones.
Akinola explained that Adedeji, a trader, and others had boarded a bus from the Obada Idiemi market but on getting to Kere village, their bus developed a fault.

She said that while the driver was trying to rectify the fault, the convict and one other person, armed with a gun, arrived at the scene on a Bajaj motorcycle and robbed them of their phones, bags and other valuables.

“The traders, who were stranded, went to Awowo palace to report the incident to the kabeyesi (the monarch) and they also passed the night at the palace,’’ the prosecution counsel had said.

She said that the vivid description of the convict and the motorcycle, which bore the inscription “No Time”, by Adedeji led to the arrest of the earring-wearing convict.
She said that the information given by the complainant made it easy for the traditional ruler and members of the vigilante group in the area to produce the convict.

Akinola said that the offences contravened Section 6(b) and 1(2)( a) of the Robbery and Firearms (special provisions) Act, Cap Rll, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.

 

 

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