- Court ruled that the offences are punishable by death
Justice Haleemah Salman of the Kwara State High Court has found the five suspects involved in the Offa robbery guilty of illegal possession of firearms, armed robbery, and culpable homicide.
Justice Salman in about five hours of judgement she delivered in Ilorin on Thursday stated that these offences are punishable by death and therefore sentenced them to death by hanging.
WITHIN NIGERIA recalls that the robbery incident occurred on April 5, 2018, in Offa, during which the convicted armed robbers unleashed multiple gun attacks in the bank’s area and killed Thirty-Nine persons including pregnant women and police officers
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