Admin l Thursday, March 17, 2022
IKEJA, Nigeria – A Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja has sentenced a middle age man, Moses Haruna to death by hanging, for the murder of one Oriyomi Out at Anthony village Lagos.
Justice Oyindamola Adesola Ogala found him guilty of the two-count charge of conspiracy to murder and murder contrary to section 233 of the criminal law, CH 17, vol. 3 laws of Lagos State 2015 as well as Murder contrary to section 223 of the Criminal Law, CH17, vol.3 laws of Lagos State 2015.
Justice Ogala held that prosecution proved the offences committed beyond a reasonable doubt and sentenced the him to death without option of fine. The convict was arraigned November 2020 during which he pleaded not guilty to the charges.
According to the charge, Haruna and two others (now at large) “on or about the 13th February 2020 at Anthony Village playing Ground, Lagos State, in the Ikeja Judicial Division did conspire to kill one Oriyomi Out (M)” , which incident happened “at 05:00hrs in the Ikeja Judicial Division by stabbing him on the head, chest and side with a knife and hitting him on the head with an iron bar.”
“The sentence of the court upon you Moses Haruna is that you be hanged by the neck until you will be dead and may God have mercy on your souls.”
Moment he was convicted, the convict broke down and was immediately handcuffed by the warden from the Correctional Center.
