Five kidnappers bag life imprisonment in Ondo

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An Ondo State High Court in Akure has sentenced five men to life imprisonment for their involvement in kidnapping.

The convicts are Tosin Adenikinju, Abiodun Olabowale, Omoniyi Akinsoyinu, Olatuyi Igbekele and Daso Oluwasiji.

They were arrested by the men of the Ondo State Police Command for kidnapping a nurse, Mrs Unikiere Adodo, who works with Araromi-Obu Rubber Plantation.They were thereafter apprehended and arraigned before the court on two counts, bordering on conspiracy and kidnapping.But delivering judgment on Wednesday, Justice O.A. Odusola, held that the prosecution proved the case of conspiracy and kidnapping against the convicts beyond reasonable doubts.

The court sentenced each of them to seven years’ imprisonment on the first count; and life imprisonment on the second count.All rights reserved. This material, and other digital content on this website, may not be reproduced, published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed in whole or in part without prior express written permission from PUNCH.

 

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Life imprisonment is too mild for kidnappers. Death by firing squad in public glare is d way t go.

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This can’t solve it, like do like China and Singapore if truly we want to be at peace . They have no business to live again

They are discussing about how to implement the security outfit, Amotekun in the west, and some unscrupulous elements are making themselves seem so full of shit by resorting to senseless abduction of humans who are struggling to make ends meet, 'just like them too'.

No amnesty for them.

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