Soldier Gets Death Penalty For Murdering Ride-Giver

A worker of the 6 Battalion, Nigerian Army successful Ibagwa, Abak section authorities country of Akwa Ibom State dismissed from work for execution and equipped robbery astir 4 years,Corporal Stephen Iweh, has been sentenced to decease by hanging.

The State High Court successful Uyo presided implicit by Justice Bassey Nkanang, handed down the condemnation aft prosecutors proved that the convict killed a 42-year-old man, Christopher Enobong Jimmy, who offered him a assistance from Onne successful Rivers State to Uyo.

Our analogous gathered that portion connected their way, the convict, who was inactive successful work and equipped successful subject camouflage, overpowered the deceased, changeable him to decease and fled with the car.
The particulars of the lawsuit noted that the incidental occurred connected May 23, 2021 on the Ikot Abasi LGA information of the East-West Road.
The precocious Jimmy, who was the manager of a clearing and forwarding institution successful Port Harcourt, had offered Corporal Iweh a assistance successful his car from Trailer Park successful Onne, Rivers State, to Ikot Abasi successful Akwa Ibom.

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 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.

The judge, Justice Nkanang, held that the prosecution proved beyond tenable uncertainty that Corporal Iweh, a autochthonal of Ameke Nkor successful Ngor Okpala LGA of Imo State, murdered Jimmy, a autochthonal of Ikot Abasi.

The tribunal noted that investigations revealed that Corporal Iweh, a begetter of 3 children, who joined the Nigerian Army successful 2002, had illegally kept the AK-47 rifle.

He was sentenced to decease by hanging for murder, decease by hanging for equipped robbery, and 10 years imprisonment for unlawful possession of firearms.

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

Jimmy is survived by his 34-year-old widow, Arit, who said her hubby had near Port Harcourt to sojourn his sister and household successful Ikot Abasi, but did not return.