An Osun State High Court ‎in Osogbo has sentenced a 40-year-old man, Kayode Adedeji, to death by hanging for robbing a woman of N3,420.‎

The sentence was handed down to Mr. Adedeji on Wednesday although the crime was committed on April 25, 2009.

The prosecuting counsel from the state ministry of justice, Elisabeth Alabi, had told the court that Mr. Adedeji robbed one Omowumi Adebayo at Bolorunduro area in Ilesa of the money armed with a knife at midnight.

The prosecution also claimed that the robber also had other dangerous weapons during his attack on Mrs. Adebayo’s residence.

Mr. Adedeji was said to have fled the scene of the robbery but was trailed and arrested by some members of the Oodua Peoples Congress in the area.

He pleaded not guilty to the one count charge of armed robbery when he was arraigned about eight years ago and was granted bail.

According to Mrs. Alabi, the convcict abused the bail privilege by committing another offence which led to his remand in Ilesa prison.

She ruled that the offence ran foul of the law and punishable under Section 11(2)(A) CAPR II, Laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 2004.

The presiding judge, Kudirat Akano, found Mr. Adedeji guilty of the crime and convicted him.

The defence counsel, Tunde Adedokun, prayed the court to be lenient and merciful in her judgment, but she ordered that Mr. Adedeji be put to death by hanging.

Source: http://gistruler..com/2017/07/high-court-sentences-man-to-death-for.html

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Hmmm, naija which way forward. Poor man will be death by hanging while rich man will be case adjourn or...

Say what
I give up.

I pity 4 him sha.

Irrespective of the amount involved, once u re armed, it is death sentence. Abi no be Nigeria here den sentence person to death for stealing 2 peak milk.




But what about pen robbers Light sentence. Mtsheew.

Jesus Christ of molete ooooo

All this wannabe bloggers b giving false information since d birth of Jesus Christ just for traffic. Madam op, wetin b d second crime he committed? To my best of knowledge, d man committed burglary wich is 3yrs imprisonment if it's daytime and 7yrs if it was committed in d night. Even manslaughter is 21yrs imprisonment.so tell m, how can a sane judge send someone to death by hanging by committing burglary? Go and get ur fact right and stop misleading pple biko

He was armed...

Hanging kwa,,, 3,420 stolen,,
This story self dey somehow..

Whaaaaaatttt

This is so inhumane

Afonja gradually porting to sharia law

Nigeria is cursed.

Please allow me to pay for his bail. Big men will steal billions ,yet no sentence

AND DIEZANI MADUEKE IS STILL FREE?!.

thief na thief no big thief no smal thief ..even if z 5naira he stole he z stil a thief nd must face d penalty 4 z action ..R.I.P in advance go nd steal no more.

When will saraki et al get death sentence by hanging

Every poor man in the zoo is liable to suffer the same fate.Both PDP and APC e-defenders are not exempted.Zoo of immunities

If that is what the law says, then the law is bleeped up.

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Hmmm, naija which way forward. Poor man will be death by hanging while rich man will be case adjourn or...

I tire oo for dis country

Madam OP the offence was armed robbery not stealing!

i am tired for dis funny country

lolx

Same Osun court that sentenced a man to death for stealing the governor's phone

What? Bleep,, seun don't change it to bleep I typed fck

Haba, what happened to prison yard?

Blood of nairaland

This cant be true for stealing how much

Useless journalism.. Wat was the other offense he committed cos it seems its dat one he was sentenced for but as usual dey want to sell their papers by using catchy headlines

I wonder the kind of death our looters in charge will face...