A Koton-Karfe, Kogi State High Court on Monday sentenced a herbalist, Ibrahim Muhammed, to death by hanging for the murder of two brothers Mohammed Kudu Abubakar and Umar Tanko Abubakar after stealing their car.
Justice Alaba Omolaye-Ajileye while condemning the accused for his “high level of exceptional wickedness” held that the prosecution had proved its case beyond reasonable doubt.
“I hold that after poisoning the two brothers as the accused confessed in his downright criminality, he hit their heads with pestle (Exhibit P7) to hasten their annihilation.
“And, in order to avoid any trace of his brutal and inhuman act, the accused buried the dead bodies of Tanko and Mohammed in his compound.
“Unfortunate for him, since nothing is hidden under the sky, nemesis caught up with him.
“By the application of an unusual but most excellent investigatory dexterity, the Special Anti-Squad (SARS) of the Nigeria Police, Kogi State, exposed the apparently hidden crime.
“By your own word, after poisoning both Tanko and Mohammed and they refused to die, you used a pestle to hit them on their heads. That was a brutal homicide committed with determination and ruthlessness.
“The manner you committed it by your own description, make it a high-level exceptional wickedness that it can only be properly marked by death sentence, which is the only sentence I can pass on you," he ruled.
Muhammad t was charged with robbery and culpable homicide, contrary to and punishable under Sections 298(a) and 221 (a) of the Penal Code.
He allegedly committed the offense in January, 2016 at Kungbani Village in Kogi State.
After robbing Abubakar and his brother, Mohammed of a Toyota Carina E Wagon with registration number Niger: BDA 902 AA, he allegedly poisoned, killed and buried them in his compound.
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