By Funmilayo Ojo |
Three men have been convicted and sentenced to death by hanging by a Port Harcourt High Court sitting, Rivers State, for kidnapping and murder.
The three convicts are Boma Thompson, Emelike Mathias, and Daniel Thankgod.
They were sentenced to death for the kidnapping and killing of Chief Abbot Ogbobula in June 2017.
Four suspects were charged for the kidnapping and killing but the court discharged and acquitted one of them.
They were found guilty on a four-count bordering conspiracy to kidnap, kidnapping, conspiracy to murder, and murder.
Justice Monina Danagogo while delivering her judgement on Thursday, sentenced the first, second and fourth defendants to seven years imprisonment without an option of fine for conspiracy to kidnap.
On the kidnapping, the judge convicted and sentenced the first, second and fourth defendants to death by hanging.
On conspiracy to murder Late Chief Abbot Ogbobula, he sentenced them to 14 years imprisonment with no option of fine while they were sentenced to death by hanging or by lethal injection for murder.
In June 2017, late Ogbobula was kidnapped in Ahoada, Rivers State and moved to Manikin Bush in Degema LGA of the state where he later died in the hands of his captors.
They however buried him in a shallow grave in the bush, but the police later exhumed his body during investigations.
