Court Sentences Man To Death For Robbery In Adamawa

A Yola High Court in Adamawa State has convicted and sentenced a 39-year-old man, Gambo Goni, to death by hanging or lethal injection for armed robbery.

The court presided by Justice Kaynson S. Lawanson, convicted and sentenced the defendant to death on count 1 and 2 and discharged him on count 3, 4 and 5.

The judge handed down the sentence following the arrangement of the convict for criminal conspiracy and armed robbery.

According to the prosecution, Goni and four others (now at large) on the October 4, 2014, had, while armed with weapons, stormed the premises of Alh. Lawan Suleiman, Alh. Musa B. Umaru, Munir M.G and Alhaji Ahmed Saibaru Shuaibu, at Kofare in Yola South LGA and robbed them of their money, handsets and other valuables.

The judge said that the prosecution proved its casethe defendant beyond reasonable doubts and thereafter convicted him as charged.