Four Kidnappers To Die By Hanging For Armed Robbery, Abducting Sister Of Emzor Pharm. Company Boss, Collecting $70,000 Ransom
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A Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja, Southwest Nigeria has sentenced four young men to death for conspiracy, armed robbery and kidnapping.
The convicts – Victor Chukwunonso, Ifeanyi Maduaka, Obinna Nwankwo and Richard Nwabueze, were sentenced on Thursday after they were found guilty of armed robbery and kidnap of Mrs Gloria Emole, the younger sister of the Managing Director of Emzor Pharmaceutical Company, Chief Ebuka Okafor in 2012.
The state government through the Director of Public Prosecution, Dr Babajide Martins, prosecuted the accused following their arrests by the operatives of the Nigeria Police Force.
The defendants who were arraigned before the court on July 13, 2013, and held in prison custody, since then, committed the offences around 8.30 am on November 19, 2012.
The incident occurred on Unity Close, Ogudu, Lagos State.
During the 10 years of trial, the prosecution submitted that the first convict was a former employee of the victim’s elder brother who was sacked after engaging in a fight.
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He told the court that the defendants kidnapped the victim when she was about to leave her residence on November 19, 2012
He told the court that the defendants kidnapped the victim when she was about to leave her residence on November 19, 2012.
He also told the court that the victim was kidnapped, blindfolded, thrown inside the booth of a car and driven to an unknown area in Ikorodu, Lagos. However, the victim was later released on November 22, 2012, after a ransom of $70,000 was paid by her husband.
