A Rivers State Excessive Court docket sitting in Port Harcourt on Monday convicted and sentenced five individuals to loss of life by hanging for the homicide of Umezuruike Alex, the commander of an area vigilante codenamed OSPAC in Omudioga neighbourhood in Emohua Native Authorities Space of the state, Umezuruike Alex.
The courtroom mentioned the convicts ought to be hanged or injected with deadly injection till they’re confirmed lifeless.
The convicts, Okechukwu Orji from the Atali neighbourhood in Obio-Akpor, Igwe Promise, Iheanyi Igwe, Morrison Igwe, from Omudioga in Emohua LGA and Goodness Monday from Akwa Ibom State, have been discovered responsible for ten counts cost of conspiracy, cultism, homicide and unlawful possession of firearms.
The trial decided that Justice Sika Aprioku, in his judgment, discharged and acquitted Alex Deiwe, the sixth defendant in the swimsuit.
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Justice Aprioku held that the prosecution counsel, Essien Edet, proved his case towards the opposite five convicts on costs of conspiracy, cultism, unlawful possession of firearms and homicide and subsequently convicted and sentenced them by hanging or ought to be administered deadly injection till they’re confirmed lifeless.
The courtroom additionally held that the convicts didn’t solely homicide the OSPAC commander of the Omudioga neighbourhood; however, they have been additionally concerned with kidnapping and different felony actions in elements of the state earlier than their arrest and graduation of prosecution.
Talking to newsmen outdoors the courtroom, the prosecution counsel, Essien Edet, an authorized officer on the Rivers State Police Command, expressed happiness over the judgment, which he described as justice adequately served.
Edet additional mentioned it is going to function a deterrent to others who’re concerned in such crimes.
He acknowledged, “I can say that justice has been served, It’s a case of the homicide of the previous OSPAC Commander of Omudioga neighborhood in Emuoha LGA. The case has been on for years. It was a case that this OSPAC Commander was gruesomely murdered and dismembered by this group of criminals.
“At the moment, the courtroom has lastly given judgment on the matter, and I consider justice to have been served. It’s a lesson to all these which can be going about committing heinous crimes, killing individuals, taking the lives of human beings as if such should not priceless that justice can be coming after them besides they repent.”
Our correspondent recalled that the previous OSPAC commander, Umezuruike Alex, was in 2021, killed, beheaded and different elements of his physique were dismembered by the cultists who noticed him as a menace to their felony actions within the space.
OSPAC is the acronym for Onelga Safety Peace and Advisory Committee.
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