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| Chief Justice of Nig, Aloma Mukhtar |
A country where civil servants and
politicians daily steal and embezzle billions without being prosecuted let
alone jailed now wants to kill a 24 year-old student for stealing a GSM
handset, cash and recharge card vouchers.
This melodrama is happening in a Delta
State High Court sitting in Effurun, which has sentenced one Moses Akatugba to
death by hanging for robbing a female victim of her cash, GSM handsets and
recharge card vouchers. The secondary school student was convicted on a
two-count charge of conspiracy and armed robbery.
Moses and his accomplice, who died as a
result of gunshot injuries was said to have committed the crime at number
30, NNPC Housing Complex Road, Ekpan in Udu Local Government Area of the state,
according to the prosecution.
The prosecution had also told the court
that the convict and his late accomplice, at gun point robbed one Mrs. Akpor
Mazino of N113,930.00, three GSM handsets, 54 various denomination of MTN
vouchers, 28 Econnet vouchers and 25 GLO vouchers valued over N100,000.
The prosecution averred that the offence
was contrary to Section 6 (b) and punishable under Section 1(2) (a) of the
Robbery and Firearms (Special Provisions) Act Cap R11 Volume 14 Laws of the
Federation of Nigeria, 2004.
In a related development, a motorcycle
operator (popularly called Okada), one Paul Nwanegbo is to spend the next 15
years in jail with hard labour for robbing his female passenger of her GSM
handset with a toy gun, the state High Court, Asaba has ruled. The incident was
said to have taken place along Direct Labour Agency, (DLA) Road in Asaba on
October 5, 2011 before the ban on operation of Okada in Asaba metropolis.
The female passenger, Amaka Okafor told
the court that “on realising that the gun was a toy, I resisted him but he overpowered
me after biting me with his teeth and snatched my phone from me.”
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