Student Sentenced To Death For Stealing Recharge Cards And A Mobile Phone
A High Court in Effurun, Delta State, has sentenced a 24-year-old secondary school student, Moses Akatugba, to death by hanging for stealing mobile phones and recharge cards, just as a commercial motorcyclist, popularly called ‘Okada’ was also jailed for 15 years imprisonment for robbing a female passenger of her mobile phone.
Akatugba was convicted on a two-count charge of conspiracy and
armed robbery in contravention of 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.
The prosecution told the court that the convict with others now at
large “robbed one Mrs. Akpor Mazino of the sum of N113,930, three phone
handsets, 54 various denominations of MTN recharge vouchers, 28 Airtel
vouchers and 25 Glo vouchers valued at over N100,000 at No. 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.
An Asaba High Court also yesterday sentenced a 30-year-old
commercial motorcyclist, Paul Nwanegbo to 15 years imprisonment with
hard labour for robbing a female passenger of her telephone handset. The
incident, according to prosecution took place along Direct Labour
Agency Road, Asaba, on October 5, 2011 before the ban on operation of
commercial motorcyclists in Asaba metropolis and other designated
cities.
The female passenger, Amaka Okafor told the court that on
“realising 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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