Two armed robbers sentenced to death in Akwa Ibom

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An Akwa Ibom State High Court sitting in Uyo, the state capital, on Thursday, sentenced two armed robbers, Donald John Obot, a 35-year-old barber and

The duo was convicted for conspiring and robbing one Esther Victor Akpan of the sum of N110,000.

In their confessional statements, the convicts said they had robbed a man of five hundred thousand naira, another of two hundred thousand naira and a woman at IBB Avenue, of her one hundred and thirty one thousand naira. The Court said, “It is bizarre and unfortunate that armed robbers abused the public transport system and converted their tricycles to perpetrate crime, leaving their innocent victims with harrowing experiences and tales of woes”.

The leader of the gang and rider of the tricycle used in the operations, is said to have escaped and has not been found till today.

 

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Armed robbers are bandits, how many bandits in the north has been sentenced to death?

What of all the politicians that loot our funds here and there

Hmmm

I wonder what they stole

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