2 TO DIE BY HANGING FOR KILLING A MAN, DUMPING THE CORPSE IN RIVER

Adamawa State High Court of Justice sitting in Yola, has convicted and sentenced a drug hawker as well as a labourer to death by hanging or by lethal injection. News Platform.

The court pesided by Hon. Justice Kaynson S. Lawanson, sentenced Habu Badaru, 27 years old and Auwal Lawan, 26 years old to death for "criminal conspiracy, robbery snd culpable homicide".

Habu of Askira Uba in Borno State and Lawan of Uba Hildi in Adamawa State were condemned after they were tried and found guilty for the offences.

While delivering judgement, Justice Lawanson, said," The sentence of the court upon you is to be hanged by the neck or by lethal injection until you are dead. May the Lord have mercy upon you".

Earlier, the prosecution informed the court that the convicts had conspired and robbed a tricycle operator known as Algoni Muhammed, after drugging him with pentazocine injection at Uba Hildi in Hong LGA.

The prosecution further explained that the convicts later made away with the tricycle in custody and care of the deceased after killing and breaking his neck on the 4th April, 2022.

News Platform had reported that the vendors criminally conspired and administered an overdose of pentazocine injection on Algoni, which led to his death; thereby, carting away his tricycle.

The convicts gruesomely murdered their victim, broke his neck and subsequently dumped his corpse in a river in Uba Hildi, Hong LGA, and stole his tricycle in order to sell it to raise the sum of N80,000 to N100,000 for Badaru to settle debt.

On that fateful day, Habu and Lawan conspired and boarded the deceased's tricycle to the house of the former, and on arrival, they held their victim and injected him with pentazocine before stealing the tricycle.

After killing him and dumping his dead body in the river, Habu rode on the tricycle to Mubi town for the purpose of selling it, but people refused to buy it for lack of particulars and returned back to Mararaba Mubi and packed the tricycle.

The following morning, Habu, went to Mubi town again with the tricycle to sell it, but nobody could buy it and decided to call somebody who deals in tricycle from Uba, to come and buy it.

On his arrival in Mubi, the business man asked Habu, how he got the tricycle since he hawks drugs and not into tricycle business, but Habu could not furnish him with a convincing answer.

The business man secretly called the Chairman of Tricycle Sellers and informed him about the development. The Chairman alerted the police who stormed the area and apprehended the 1st convict.