The Kwara State High Court has sentenced to death five men involved in the Offa town armed robbery of 2018.
Justice Haleemah Salman founding the suspects guilty of the offence of culpable homicide, armed robbery among others and ordered that they should be hung by the neck until they breathe no more.
The suspects had stormed several banks in Offa, Kwara State, on April 5, 2018, and killed 32 persons and police officers.
Five accused who bagged death sentences on Thursday are: Ayoade Akinnibosun, Azeez Salahudeen, Niyi Ogundiran, Ibikunle Ogunleye, and Adeola Abraham.
Along with their sixth partner, a police officer, Michael Adikwu (now deceased), they had been arrested and convicted in connection with the bloody bank robbery.
in a judgment delivered on Thursday September 26, found them guilty of possession of firearms, armed robbery, and culpable homicide, offences punishable by death.
The dastardly bank robbery took place on April 5, 2018 in Offa, Offa Local Government Area of the state, where about 32 persons, including nine policemen were killed.
The court held that the convicts robbed and killed innocent citizens including nine police officers in Offa during the bloody robbery attack.
The judgement was meant to be delivered on August 2, 2024 but was put forward because of the nationwide protest.
It was reported that Adikwu, the leader of the robbery gang, died in police custody while the remaining five pleaded not guilty in court.
The remaining five suspects standing trial were present in court on Thursday.
Rotimi Jacob is the lead prosecuting counsel, while the lead defence counsel, Nathaniel Emeribe, was not in court and was represented by A. S. Abdullahi.
The court, in the judgment, handed down three years imprisonment on the convicts for the offence of illegal possession of firearms based on the penal code law.
