Justice Mosunmola Abodunde of the Ado-Ekiti High Court on Friday sentenced a middle-aged man, Isa Abdulkareem, to death by hanging for armed robbery.
Abodunde held that the prosecution proved its case beyond reasonable doubts and consequently found the defendant guilty as charged.
On arraignment, the prosecutor from the state Ministry of Justice, Mr Gbemiga Adaramola, told the court that the defendant, armed with guns and cutlass, robbed one Taiwo Olomola of the sum of N110,000 and Techno phones.
Adaramola alleged that the defendant carried out a robbery activity on Dec. 19, 2016, at Ureje area in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital.
He said Abdulkareem also robbed one Adeya Olalekan of the sum of N74,000 and an Infinix Note 2 phone.
According to him, the two-count charges of conspiracy and armed robbery contravened Section 402,(2) of the Criminal Code Law, Cap C 16, Laws of Ekiti State. 2012.
The defendant pleaded not guilty to the charges.
The convict was said to have been arrested at the point of the crime with weapons and other exhibits, which made it easy for the police to bring witnesses to testify against him.
The prosecution called four witnesses to prove its case and tendered exhibits including the two guns, five live cartridges, phones, as well as a confessional statement of the convict.
The convicts was represented by Mr Adeyinka Opaleke who called only the convict as his witness during the trial.