UNILORIN
PROF’S EX-DRIVER, TWO OTHERS TO DIE BY HANGING
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High Court in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital,
presided over by Justice H. Saleeman on Thursday sentenced three persons to
death by hanging for armed robbery and attempting to commit culpable homicide
against a professor with the University of Ilorin, Prof. Abdullahi Onimisi.
The
convicts, who are Onimisi’s former driver, Mr. Opeyemi Esan; one Mr. Benjamin
Musa and Mr. Oluwasegun Ajiboye, were convicted of robbery, punishable under
Section 1 (2) Robbery and Firearms Act, Cap R 11, LFN 2004.
The
Kwara State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Kamalden
Ajibade, who led the prosecution, had told the court that the professor
disengaged the service of Esan due to his unruly behaviour.
Ajiade
added that Esan was aggrieved with his dismissal and organised a robbery attack
to retaliate the sack.
Esan,
in his confession to the police, was said to have owned up that he recruited
Musa and Ajiboye from Lagos State to deal with his former boss. READ MORE
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