A Lagos State
High Court sitting in Igbosere has sentenced Ezekiel Eloka and Echezona
Nwabufor to death by hanging for the murder
of a post-graduate student, Cynthia Osokogu, who they lured from
Nassarawa to Lagos before strangulating her to death at a hotel in Festac Town,
Lagos, in 2012.
Delivering her
judgement, Justice Olabisi Akinlade declared that after carefully analyzing the
evidence presented before the court, testimonies of prosecution witnesses, and
confessional statements the deceased made to the police, she was left with no
doubt that the accused were guilty of killing Ms. Osokogu.
She also found
them guilty of the second charge of committing felony by stealing her
Blackberry phone, saying the prosecution had proved beyond reasonable doubt
that the accused intended and in fact took the life of the deceased in the
process of stealing her phone and belongings.
She also found
the duo guilty of the first and third charge – conspiracy to commit murder and
conspiracy to steal.
Orji Osita, a
pharmacist, who was initially released unconditionally but rearrested again,
was discharged and acquitted of the charge of recklessness
and negligence for selling drugs without prescription which the accused used in
drugging the deceased.
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