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Man, James Afolabi, To Die For Killing Fulani Man by Onenaira1: 1:17am On Apr 23, 2016 |
THISDAYLive Home Nigeria Man to Die for Killing Fulani Man April 22, 2016 19 10997 By Tobi Soniyi The Supreme Court has affirmed the death sentence handed out to a farmer and father of five, James Afolabi, by the Kogi State High Court and the Court of Appeal. In a unanimous judgment delivered on Friday, a five-man panel of the apex court held that there was no basis to disturb the concurrent finding of the trial and lower courts in their previous judgments. Afolabi, from Kogi State, was convicted and sentenced to death by the Kogi State High Court, Lokoja in 2012 having been found guilty for the murder of a Fulani man, Abubakar Mohammed. The court relied on Afolabi’s confessional statement to the police, where he claimed to have shot Mohammed on the chest for straying into his (Afolabi’s) yam and cassava farm on February 27, 2009. The Court of Appeal, Abuja on March 22, 2012 dismissed his appeal and upheld the decision of the trial court, a decision he appealed to the Supreme Court. On Friday, Justice John Inyang Okoro, in the lead judgment in the appeal marked: SC/181/2012, held that although the prosecution could not produce an eye witness at trial, it provided sufficient evidence, through its witnesses, “which gave vent to the confession of the appellant. “And in any case, this court held in Mohammed v State (2007) 11 NWLR (pt 1045) 303 at 230 paragraph F that where an accused person confesses to a crime, in the absence of an eye witness of the killing, he can be convicted on his confession alone. “For all I have said, I hold a strong view that the court below was on a strong wicket when it upheld the conviction and sentencing of the appellant upon reliance on his confessional statements,” he said. Justice Okoro also sided with the lower court in concluding that the intention of the appellant was to kill the victim. “In the instant case, the appellant states emphatically, in Exhibit D (confessional statement), adjudged to have been freely and voluntarily made, that he aimed his gun at the chest of the deceased at close range and shot him. “It was his further evidence that the deceased fell down and could not move again. At that point, he ran to the village head and reported that he had killed a man. “In the circumstance, did he intend to kill the man? I had earlier stated in this judgment that a person is taken to intend that natural and probable consequences of his act. “So, when the appellant aimed his gun at the chest of the deceased and shot it, did he intend to keep him alive? I do not think so. At least he intended to cause him grievous bodily harm. “And, in view of the force of a gunshot aimed at the heart, the engine room of a man’s life, it can safely be concluded that the appellant intends to kill the deceased on his action, the report he made to the village head notwithstanding. http://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2016/04/22/man-to-die-for-killing-fulani-man/ |
Re: Man, James Afolabi, To Die For Killing Fulani Man by Onenaira1: 1:21am On Apr 23, 2016 |
Can you imagine this? Fulanis can kill many people without any persecution but the second others defend themselves and their livelihood against this people then the Justice system remember the law. |
Re: Man, James Afolabi, To Die For Killing Fulani Man by TPAND(f): 4:29am On Apr 23, 2016 |
Buhari retrofitted the Fulani herdsmen with modern guns AK47s, trying to protect this guys with the grazing bill. This guys go about house to house, village to village killing innocent civilians all the name of protecting our presidents herd. Come 2019, we are sending Buhari back where he belongs. He is a normad, no wonder he never sits in one place, junketing from one country to another |
Re: Man, James Afolabi, To Die For Killing Fulani Man by maryjan8(f): 5:00am On Apr 23, 2016 |
God have mercy |
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