Two sentenced to death for the murder of a tricycle rider in Abuja.

Yahuza Isah and Auwalu Mohammed were sentenced death by hanging by a Federal Capital Territory High Court in Kubwa for the murder of a tricycle rider.

Asmau Akanbi-Yusuf, the judge who rendered the decision in the case, stated that the defendants had a common intention when they planned to murder and rob Mohammed Shaibu on January 7, 2020, according to the evidence presented to the court.

Isah and Auwalu were found to have presented no evidence to dispute their arrests, according to Akanbi-Yusuf’s ruling.

“The prosecution counsel, Mayowa Adefioye, has proved beyond reasonable doubt the offence of conspiracy, armed robbery and culpable homicide, punishable with death under Section 1(2)(a)(b) of the Robbery and Firearms Special Provisions Act.

“Therefore, the defendants have been found guilty and shall be hanged on the neck until they are dead. May the good Lord have mercy on their souls,” she ruled.

According to a previous report by the News Agency of Nigeria, the prosecution attorney claimed that on January 7, 2020, the prisoners robbed the dead and stole his tricycle while brandishing firearms.

Shaibu was killed, according to Adefioye, when the inmates struck him in the head with a spanner in Moore District, Abuja.