The Chief Choose of Taraba, Justice Joel Agya, on Friday sentenced Yusufa Adamu and Adamu Abdullahi to loss of life by hanging for kidnapping Balkisu Kambe and Maryam Musa in Gashaka Native Authorities of the state.
Agya, whereas delivering the judgment in Jalingo, stated the prosecution had confirmed its case past an affordable doubt.
The choose stated the duo dedicated the crime in 2019.
Earlier, the Prosecution Counsel, Samson Gimba, knowledgeable the court docket that Musa was kidnapped on September 2, 2019, at Serti whereas Kambe was kidnapped at Angwan America in Baruwa on September 29, 2019.
He additionally discovered them responsible of legal conspiracy and unlawful possession of firearms and sentenced every to 10 years with out an possibility of high quality.
The choose stated the sentence on legal conspiracy and unlawful possession of firearms would take impact from 2019 after they have been arrested and detained.
Moreover, the choose stated the convicts made confessional statements in regards to the crime and picked up ransom.
He famous that one of many victims, Kambe, recognized the defendants as a member of the gang that kidnapped her in her home after they couldn’t discover her husband at Angwan America in Baruwa on September 29, 2019.
Kambe stated they unmasked themselves after they took her to the bush for 2 days earlier than her husband despatched them a N1 million ransom.
“Primarily based on Part Three, Paragraph 8 of the Kidnapping and Abduction Regulation of Taraba 2019, I hereby sentence you to loss of life by hanging on the neck, could God have mercy in your souls.
“You, nevertheless, have the proper to use to the Committee on the Prerogative of Mercy for the sentence to be dedicated to life imprisonment, particularly since no life was misplaced within the technique of kidnapping,” the choose stated.
Gimba hailed the judgment as sound and commendable.
Counsel to the defendants, Mahanar Puki, had pleaded for mercy when the responsible verdict was pronounced earlier than the choose handed the sentence.
Puki had instructed the court docket that the convicts have been first-time offenders and had proven regret all through the trial and ought to be proven mercy.
