A Minna High Court has sentenced three Fulani herders to death by hanging.
The convicts were sentenced owing to alleged armed robbery, culpable homicide, rape, and heinous offences in the state.
The suspected convicts include; Mohammed Ibrahim Soja, Sani Idris Boka, and Babangida Gido.
The trio was arraigned and found guilty on a ten-count charge of armed robbery, culpable homicide, and rape, among other vicious offences in the state, according to the Niger State Police command.
Earlier in December 2015, they have said to have robbed one Josephine Monday, armed with guns, cutlasses, knives, and sticks.
It was said that they carted off the sum of over N1 million cash, recharge cards valued at about N20,000, and her husband’s N58,000 given to her for safe keeping at Waugu village in Shiroro Local Government area of Niger State during the operation.
The presiding Judge, Justice Mohammed Adishetu Mohammed, in his ruling, stated that the shreds of evidence and prosecuting witnesses in the case have been “so consistent and explanative, even as the evidence of prosecuting witness is believable.”
He further said;
“Accordingly, I hold that all the ingredients of the offences of rape, attempt to commit culpable homicide, causing grievous hurt and armed robbery have been proved against the convicts beyond reasonable doubt.
As such they have been sentenced to death by hanging, life imprisonment for the offence of rape and ten years imprisonment for causing grievous hurt and all the sentences to run consecutively.”
