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Kidnappers Jailed For 60 Years In Asaba Delta State For Kidnapping Politician Brother
March 24, 2016 – Kidnappers Jailed For 60 Years In Asaba Delta State For Kidnapping Politician Brother
A Delta State High Court in Asaba has convicted and sentenced three men, Igane Enekorogha, 37, a fisherman; Godwin Sibede, 36, a driver; and Job Burutu, 47; to 60 years imprisonment with hard labour, for kidnapping.
The convicts were found guilty of the four-count charge of kidnapping, conspiracy to commit kidnapping, demanding property with menace and illegal possession of firearms.
The three convicts, with another member of their four-man kidnapping gang still at large, forcefully abducted Tobeckwukwu Ochei, a younger brother to former Speaker of Delta State House of Assembly Speaker, Right Honourable Victor Ochei, on 27 March, 2012, 10 days after his wedding ceremony.
During the trial, the prosecutor from the Department of Public Prosecutions of the Delta State Ministry of Justice, Samuel Nwanne, told the court that the convict with others now at large, on or about 27th March, 2012, at Asaba, within the Asaba Judicial Division, kidnapped Tobeckwukwu Donald Ochei in front of the gate of his house at about 6:30 am while armed with guns and whisked him away in their operational vehicle to an unknown location before he was later rescued by men of the DSS after spending four days in the kidnappers’ den, identified as an Iraq Community inside the Creeks.
Prosecution also told the court that the kidnappers also made a call to the victim’s wife demanding a ransom of N300 million from the family before he could be released.
The Court presided over by Hon. Justice Cletus Emifoniye, while delivering its verdict, sentenced by the convicts to 10 years imprisonment each with hard labour for the offence of kidnapping, seven years imprisonment each for conspiracy, three years in jail for each of the accused persons for demanding the sum of N300 million as ransom and another 10 years jail term each for illegal possession of firearms.
The court ruled that the sentences are to run concurrently.
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Amazon
March 24, 2016 at 2:50 PM
Good news, that will serve as a big lesson to other ones
Metu Nyetu
March 24, 2016 at 2:57 PM
The Justice was even merciful. A 60-year jail term each would have made more sense, so that if they ever lived to come out, they would just be papilons.
Eyeke jane
March 26, 2016 at 3:57 PM
@ metu A 60 yr jail term was served to each of them
Olanrewaju
March 24, 2016 at 3:42 PM
It is high time that FG should change the penalty for kidnapping to dead by hanging. Not a day would pass without reading bout kidnapping……look at their evil and ugly face
fifelomo
March 24, 2016 at 4:22 PM
Gaskia 60 years small, once bn caught let it be a death penalty. Hearless boys
Jojo
March 24, 2016 at 4:23 PM
It should have been death by firing squad . Heartless jobless idiots.
Jojo
March 24, 2016 at 4:24 PM
It should have been death by firing squad . Heartless jobless idiots.
my lady
March 24, 2016 at 8:57 PM
HEARTLESS MEN
John Emeka
March 25, 2016 at 2:01 PM
It’s high time naija put dis kidnapping in d law of death sentence
Maryf
March 25, 2016 at 2:34 PM
Look at them, they look so dry because of their wicked act. Now they will die in jail. Fools
sola olaniyi
March 25, 2016 at 3:42 PM
more of this
Precious
March 25, 2016 at 10:33 PM
Ride on to kiri kiri