Two Nigerians Sent To Death By Hanging For Murder

A Lagos State High Court sitting in Igbosere has sentenced Ezekiel
Eloka and Echezona Nwabufor to death by hanging for the killing of a
post-graduate student, Cynthia Osokogu, who they lured from
Nasarawa to Lagos before strangling her to death at a hotel in Festac
Town, Lagos, in 2012.

Delivering her judgement, Justice Olabisi Akinlade declared that after
carefully analyzing the evidence presented before the court,
testimonies of prosecution witnesses, and confessional statements the
deceased made to the police, she was left with no doubt that the
accused were guilty of killing Ms. Osokogu.
She also found them guilty of the second charge of committing felony
by stealing her Blackberry phone, saying the prosecution had proved
beyond reasonable doubt that the accused intended and in fact
murdering of the deceased in the process of stealing her phone and
belongings.

She also found the two guilty of the first and third charge –
conspiracy to commit murder and conspiracy to steal.

Orji Osita, a pharmacist, who was initially released unconditionally but
rearrested again, was discharged and acquitted of the charge of
recklessness and negligence for selling drugs without prescription
which the accused used in drugging the deceased.
Source: PremiumTimes