A Man, Jackson Feutubobai, has been sentenced to death by hanging for participating in the killing of 11 police officers.
The judgment according to Sahara
Reporters was carried out by a high court in the Oporoma judicial
division in Bayelsa state on Tuesday, March 22, after he was found
guilty of killing one Inspector Joseph Ofozini.
Feutubobai was among the killers of
eleven policemen who were reportedly killed in the Lobia II community in
the Southern Ijaw local government area of the state on April 5, 2013.
The police prosecutor had informed the
court of the accused’s five other cases in various courts, including
cases involving an alleged kidnapping and sea piracy.
After hearing the application against
the suspect, the presiding Justice, M A Ayemieye sentenced Feutubobai
to death by hanging, noting that it is mandatory for those accused of
murder to be sentenced to death.
Arthur Andrew Seweniowor, the state
prosecuting counsel, who addressed journalists after the sentence, said
if the accused fails to appeal in three months, the death warrant will
be signed by the governor.
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