Convicted Kidnappers Bag Death Sentence In Ekiti

Two men arrested by the Department of State Services (DSS) have been sentenced to death by an Ekiti State High Court, following their conviction for kidnapping a staff of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC).

The kidnappers, Ibrahim Abubakar and Abdullahi Abubakar, were convicted at the Ekiti State High Court I, Fajuyi, Ado-Ekiti, in suit number HAD/124C/2022.

A third defendant, Usman Abubakar, was however discharged after the Court found insufficient evidence linking him to the abduction.

The case bordered on the abduction of Omoboade Adesina, a female National Youth Service Corps staff member in Ekiti, on 22nd April, 2022.

The two convicts were subsequently arrested and prosecuted by the DSS.

Delivering judgment, the Chief Judge of Ekiti State, Lekan Ogunmoye, sentenced two defendants to death by hanging and discharged the third defendant

The conviction comes on the heels of a death sentence handed down by a Sokoto High Court against three men convicted of terrorism and cross-border arms proliferation, as well as the conviction a kidnapper in Kogi State earlier secured by the Service among others.