An Abia State Excessive Court docket sitting in Ukwa, Abia State, has sentenced two former members of the Abia Vigilante Group, popularly often known as Bakassi Boys, to dying for alleged involvement in kidnap and homicide.
The duo, Ugochukwu Amaugo and Udo Ogah, are to die by hanging in keeping with the pronouncement of the trial choose, Justice Chibuzo Ahuchaogu.
They had been discovered responsible of conspiracy, kidnap and homicide which occurred on the thirtieth of August, 2014.
The convicts had, on the mentioned date, arrested two younger males, Temple Nwakanma and Martins Azih, across the Osisioma space of Aba, and claimed to have discovered them in possession of firearms, cartridges and knives.
They claimed to have handed over the suspects to sure Military personnel who intercepted them at a navy checkpoint on the Umuahia-Aba Expressway whereas taking them to Umuahia the state capital.
The convicts had additionally claimed not figuring out the identities of the mentioned navy personnel nor getting any word from them earlier than handing over the suspects to them.
In the meantime, the whereabouts of the suspects had remained unknown because the Nigerian Military had since denied any data of the incident.
This prompted relations of the suspects to strategy the court docket for justice.
Delivering judgment on the matter, Justice Ahuchaogu, mentioned the convicts ought to be hanged for failing to show past each cheap doubt that that they had handed the boys to males of the Nigerian Military and as such knew nothing about their disappearance.
