25-years-old Mohamodu Haruna, was today, sentenced to death by hanging by an Ekiti State High Court, for cutting a fellow herdsman to death with a cutlass.
“there are judgment in the murder case in Ado-Ekiti, Justice Adekunle Adeleye said 3 are no surrounding circumstances that destroyed the cogency of the ~1 evidence led against the accused.
“He is caught in the web of the last seen theory. In the result, I find the defendant guilty as charged. He is sentenced to death by hanging.”
According to Prosecution counsel, Shirley Atanel, during trial had told the court that Haruna committed the offence on Feb. 12, 2018, at the Uro river in Iyin Ekiti, Irepodun/Ifelodun council of the state.
Atanel said that the convict murdered one Mohamadu Usman contrary to Section 516 of the Criminal Code, CAP C16, Laws of Ekiti State, 2012.
Giving evidence in the case, one of the prosecution witnesses told the court that while riding his motorcycle past the river, he saw two herdsmen approaching the river with their herds of cattle.
The witness said that he later saw Haruna returning a blood-stained matchet into its sheath and the other herdsman lying face down in a pool of blood with a matchet cut on bandight kidnappers, bandits
During the trial, the prosecution called four witnesses including the IPO and tendered exhibits to prove its case including the convict’s confessional statements, photographs of the deceased, and a blood-stained matchet.
Haruna, who was represented by his defence counsel, Mr. Yinka Opaleke, testified in his own defense and called no witness.
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