Kwara monarch, two others bag life imprisonment for kidnapping

Date: 2023-12-01

Justice Adenike Akinpelu of the Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin on Thursday sentenced the Serikin Fulani also known as Ardo (Head of the Fulani) in Kwara State, Alhaji Usman Adamu, his brother and one Gidado Idris to life imprisonment for conspiracy to kidnap and commission of kidnapping.

The case was investigated by the Department of State Security and prosecuted by the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions in the state Ministry of Justice.

The DPP, Mr Ayoola Akande, charged the Serikin Fulani, and two others with the offence of kidnapping one Abubakar Ahmad and collected a ransom of N1m before his eventual release after spending 20 days with them in the bush.

The kidnap incident, according to the prosecution, took place between May and June 2022.

In her judgment, Justice Akinpelu said the trio were all in agreement to commit the offence, adding that whether they were physically present at the kidnap scene or not was immaterial.

She added that the convicts “supposedly arrested their victim claiming that he was a kidnap suspect to extort money from him.

“I am not persuaded by the submissions of counsel for the defendants to dismiss the two-count charge against them based on the fact that they were not at the scene of the incident.”

The judge said the trio were all in agreement to commit a crime, adding whether they were physically present at the kidnap scene or not was immaterial.

Akinpelu lamented that “it is saddening and disturbing that community leaders charged with the welfare of their subjects could, because of the love for money, breach the security of the same subjects.

“They are hereby found guilty as charged and are so convicted.”

After listening to the convicts' allocutus plea of having over 20 children, more than eight wives and being the bread winners of their families, the judge said, “By Section 15 of the Kwara State Anti-Kidnapping Law, the court cannot exercise any discretion of leniency, so you are hereby sentenced to life imprisonment. The sentence is to run concurrently.”

She ordered that a sum of N600,000 be paid to Alhaji Ahmad who is the victim of the abduction.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Pacify Labs     Femi Ogunsola     Muhammad Akande Olarewaju Odunade     Oloje     Gwanara     John Obuh     Niguel Gallando Marcias     Sambo Murtala     Radio SBS     Ophthalmological Society Of Nigeria     IFK     Abdulkadir Orire     Muhammed Abdullahi     Afin Descendants Union Of Odo-Owa     Hydro-electric Power Producing Areas Development Commission     Irepodun     Suleiman Mora Omar     Alagbado     Ajase-Ipo     Nigeria Foundation For Artificial Intelligence     Yahaya Muhammad     Abraysports FC     George Innih     HYPPADEC     CLAY POT     Taofeeq Olateju     Clement Yomi Adeboye     Babatunde Ishola Babaita     Salary     Afolabi-Oshatimehin     Yakubu Shaaba     Ekiti     Garba Ado Sanni     Adamu B. Yaqubu     Oro Grammar School     Sola Saraki University     Ali Ahmad     NTA Ilorin     Muhammad Mustapha Suleiman     Code Of Conduct Bureau     Oyun     Odogun Olushola Gabriel     Oyelere Oyinloye     GGDSS Pakata     Rafiu Ibrahim     Kolo     Moshood Bakare     Muyideen Ajani Bello     Oya State     Shagari     Tafida     Magaji Nda     Salman Alada     Aiyedun     NIPOGA     Road Transport Employers Association Of Nigeria     Laolu Saraki     RTEAN     Mohammed Kamaludeen     Ganmo     Tsaragi     Gbugbu     Kwara 2015     NFAI     KW-GIS     Funmilayo Oniwa     Minimum Wage     Abdulkadri Ahmad Alaiye     Kwara Poly     Isiaka Danmeromu     AbdulQowiy Olododo     Talaka Parapo     Police Commissioner     Iponrin     Ilorin Emirate     Kawu Baraje     Yakub Ali-Agan    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Sebastine Obasi     Isaac Aderemi Kolawole     Sheriff Shagaya     Ganiyu Taofiq     Kwara Metro Park     Musa Yeketi     Amoyo     A.O. Belgore     Matthew Babaoye     Omupo     Overland     Moshood Mustapha     Bamidele Adegoke Oladimeji     Falokun-Oja     Paul Odama     Jebba     PharmAccess Foundation     Yahaya Abdulkareem Babaita     Kwara South     ER-KANG Mining     Mahfouz Adedimeji     Yusuf Amuda Aluko     Garment Factory     Fatai Garuba Labaka     Galadiman Ngeri     Orisa Bridge     Hydro-electric Power Producing Areas Development Commission     Amuda Aluko     Shaaba Lafiagi     Olomu Of Omu-Aran     Onilu     Bello John Olanrewaju     KWASAA     International Aviation College     Abdulkarim Adisa     V.O. Abioye     Igosun     Unilorin FM     Kwara State Council Of Chiefs     Plat Technologies Limited     College Of Arabic And Islamic Legal Studies     Kolo     Balogun Gambari     Gafaru Olayiwola Olorisade     Busari Toyin Isiaka     Sulaiman Gado     Imodoye Writer’s Enclave     Orire     Aliyu Alhassan     Omotoso Musa     Alabi Lawal     Maigidasanma     Bamidele Adegoke     Alapansapa     Waziri Yakubu Gobir     Ajikobi     Innocent Okoye     Ganmo Electricity Sub-Station     Kehinde Boyede     Isa Aremu     Ita-Nmo Market     Toyin Falola     Olatunji Abdulmumeen     Sadiq Buhari     Chikanda     Presidential Election     Kayode Oyin Zubair     AbdulRazaq AbduMajeed Alaro     Rafiu Ibrahim     Abdulkadir Bolakale Sakariyah     Ilorin Descendants Progressive Union     Abdullahi AbdulMajeed     Oba Abdulrahim     High Court     Olabimpe Olani     Henry Olaosebikan     Federal Allocation