Soldier Dismissed For Murder, Armed Robbery Sentenced To Death In Akwa Ibom

A soldier, Corporal Stephen Iweh, who was attached to 6 Battalion, Ibagwa, Abak section authorities country of Akwa Ibom State and dismissed for execution and equipped Robbery astir 4 years agone has been sentenced to decease by hanging.

The Akwa Ibom State High Court sitting successful Uyo, the superior and presided implicit by Justice Bassey Nkanang, sentenced Iweh to decease aft prosecutors proved that helium killed a 42-year-old Christopher Enobong Jimmy who offered him a thrust from Onne successful Rivers State to Uyo.

LEADERSHIP, however, gathered that portion connected thier way, the convict, who was inactive successful work and successful subject camouflage with arms, overpowered the deceased, changeable him to decease and fled with the car.

The particulars of the lawsuit noted that “the incidental occurred connected 23rd May, 2021, on the Ikot Abasi LGA information of the East-West Road.”

“The precocious Jimmy, who was the Manager of a Clearing and Forwarding Company successful Port Harcourt, had offered Corporal Iweh a thrust successful his car from Trailer Park successful Onne, Rivers State to Ikot Abasi successful Akwa Ibom.

“Along the way, astatine Oboro Junction successful Ikot Abasi, the 39-year-old worker changeable him dormant earlier fleeing with the conveyance and valuables.

“Investigations revealed that Corporal Iweh, a begetter of 3 children, had illegally kept the AK-47 firearm which helium recalled helium picked astatine Dambou, Borno State successful 2018, and decided to support it arsenic his idiosyncratic arms.

“On the time of the killing, Corporal Iweh, was expected to beryllium connected work astatine the Army Store, 6 Battalion, Ibagwa, Abak, but abandoned his station to perpetrate the crime.

“He was aboriginal traced to Andy Guest House successful Ukanafun LGA, galore kilometers from the country of crime, wherever helium was arrested and the firearm recovered,” the lawsuit record stated.

However, the proceedings judge, Justice Nkanang, held that the prosecution proved beyond tenable uncertainty that Iweh, a autochthonal of Ameke Nkor successful Ngor Okpala LGA of Imo State, murdered the deceased, an indigene of Ikot Abasi, robbed him of his Toyota Matrix car, portion equipped with an AK-47 rifle, and unlawfully possessed the firearm without a license.

The tribunal said that the worker changeable Jimmy astatine a junction successful Oboro, Ikot Abasi, wherever they had stopped to urinate and devour Pork meat, earlier fleeing with the conveyance and different belongings..

Justice Nkanang convicted the suspect connected a three-count complaint and sentenced him to decease by hanging for execution and equipped robbery portion the convict was slammed 10-year imprisonment for amerciable possession of firearms.

In his plea for mercy, the convict begged the tribunal for what helium described arsenic a “soft landing,” but his allocutus was rejected.