BREAKING: Apo 6: Court Sentences 2 Officers To Death, Discharges 3
A
High Court sitting in Abuja has delivered a judgment in the alleged
extra judicial killing of six spare parts traders at Apo area of Abuja
by six police officers in 2005.
Delivering
his judgement, Justice Bello sentenced two of the defendants to death
and discharged the other three for lack of sufficient evidence since one
of them has been at large.
The
officers are Danjuma Ibrahim, Othman Abdulsalami (now at large),
Nicholas Zakaria, Ezekiel Acheneje, Baba Emmanuel and Sadiq Salami.
The Attorney General of the Federation in 2005 charged the six police officers to court for the alleged crime.
They
were arraigned on a nine count charge of conspiracy and culpable
homicide, which contravened the provisions of Sections 97 and 221 (a) of
the Penal Code Law.
The
traders allegedly killed by the officers: are Ifeanyi Ozor, Chinedu
Meniru, Isaac Ekene, Paulinus Ogbonna, Anthony Nwodike and Augustina
Arebun.
Details later…
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