COURT SENTENCES MAN TO 10 YEARS IN PRISON FOR ROBBERY

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Babatunde Adura, 38, was sentenced to ten years in jail by a high court in Isanlu, Yagba East Local Government Area of Kogi State, for armed robbery and criminal conspiracy.

The offender and two other people were charged with armed robbery and criminal conspiracy in 2020, but the other two conspirators escaped from jail during the December 2021 Kabba jailbreak, which took place in December of the previous year.

The only defendant was heard by the court on Wednesday.

The court’s trial judge, Justice Abubakar Suleiman Ibrahim, declared the defendant guilty of the crime after he admitted to selling the articles that had been taken during the robbery incident.

In August 2020, the crime was committed at Olukere-Amuro in the Mopa-Moro LGA, when the convicted criminal and several fugitives stormed into numerous homes and robbed their victims of goods.

The convict’s attorney, Segun Senibi, did not object when his testimony to the police was offered as evidence, and he also admitted to the crime.

J.J. Ifepariola, the prosecution attorney, was successful in persuading the court of his involvement in the crime.

The prosecutor called witnesses, and the defendant’s confessional testimony contained evidence that Adura was guilty.

He admitted to stealing a locally made pistol, which he used to commit crimes in the region along with his accomplices.

Adura was found guilty, condemned to ten years in prison for the robbery offense, and given a six-month sentence for criminal conspiracy.

Despite the fact that the convict was a first-time offender, the sentences would run consecutively and there was no chance to pay a fine.