A High Court sitting in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State on Thursday sentenced a 27-year-old and father of one, Sylvester Emmanuel Ime to death by hanging for
The Presiding Judge, Justice Okon Okon found the condemned guilty of robbing one Dam Dave company located at Idoro road Uyo, the State capital.
The other members of the gang it was gathered are at large but Ime was apprehended through tracking of a cell phone they stole during the operation which was in the custody of his girlfriend, Victoria. “The other members met me at Itam Junction in Uyo at about 9pm and we hid in a bush at Idoro Road till 2am, when we carried out the robbery operation, I was given one hundred thousand Naira as my share out of the N1.5 million they sold the trucks.”
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