AN Effurun high court, has sentenced a 24 year old secondary school
student, Moses Akatugba, to death by hanging for robbing GSM handsets
and recharge cards, just as a commercial motorcyclist, popularly called
‘okada’ rider was also jailed 15 years imprisonment for robbing a female
passenger of her GSM handset.
Moses was convicted on a
two-count charge of conspiracy and armed robbery contrary to section 6
(b) and punishable under section 1 (2) (a) of the Robbery and Firearms
(Special Provisions) Act Cap R11 Volume 14 Laws of the Federation of
Nigeria, 2004.
Prosecution told the court that the convict with
others now at large “robbed one Mrs. Akpor Mazino of the sum of N113,930
cash, 3 GSM handsets, 54 various denomination of MTN recharge vouchers,
28 Econnet vouchers and 25 GLO vouchers valued over N100,000 at Number
30 NNPC Housing complex road,
Ekpan”.
The victim in her evidence gave a vivid account of how she was robbed of the items at her shop at gunpoint.
The
female passenger, Amaka Okafor told the court that “on realizing the
gun was a toy, I resisted him but he overpowered me after biting me with
his teeth and snatched my phone from me”.
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