8 bag 104 years for kidnap of Igbuya

  

A Delta State High Court sitting at Kwale and presided over by Justice O. Jaloggo-Williams has found eight persons responsible for the kidnap of the Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly Honourable Monday Igbuya on May, 21, 2009 at Sapele guilty, and accordingly sentenced them to a total of 104 years imprisonment.

Monday Igbuya, Justice at last.

The convicts are Godspower Ikoro, Godspower Omoniyi (an ex-soldier), Ernest Atteh, John Adapamu, Ife Freedom, Sunday Uba Tiemo, kemi koinyang and Isaiah Mumbor.

The convicts who were arraigned in court after their arrest were later transferred from the Sapele High Court in 2011 to Kwale for trails on a six-count charge of conspiracy to commit a felony to wit, kidnapping, armed robbery and the substantive case of kidnap of Monday Igbuya and demanding with menaces the sum 100 million as ransom.

Monday Igbuya was subsequently released on 27th May 2009.

The Court found the convicts guilty on the count of kidnapping and demanding property with menace and sentenced them to 10 years (for kidnapping) in jail each with hard labour and three years in imprison (for demanding N100 million with menaces). The Court further held that the sentences are to run concurrently.

Justice Jaloggo-Williams however discharged them on the count of armed robbery for lack of sufficient evidence by prosecution.

The accused persons were charged under the criminal Code Law Section 364 (I.)  that prescribed 10 years jail term for Offenders before the Delta House of Assembly enacted Anti-Kidnapping Law,  2016 that now prescribed life imprisonment for Offenders.