Two cops get death sentence for killing student

Date: 29-04-2010 9:13 am (13 years ago) | Author: Joseph E
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Source: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2010/04/29/2-cops-get-death-sentence-for-killing-student/

PORT HARCOURT — TWO trigger-happy policemen, Corporals Wafal Aminu and Victor Fabiyi have been condemned to death after being found guilty by a Port Harcourt High Court of killing a University of Port Harcourt, final year Geology student, Nnamdi Ajikere.

The court heard that trouble started when Ajikere, his brother and two girls boarded an unpainted taxi cab operated by Fabiyi, who was in plainclothes. The group had to alight from the cab following disagreement on the fare charged by the driver.

Fabiyi was angered by the group’s decision to abandon his taxi in preference for another and made his resentment known to the group, following an exchange of uncomplimentary words between both parties.
Bent on getting his pound of flesh, Fabiyi trailed the group to a mobile police check-point close to a five-star hotel along GRA and hurriedly lied to the policemen that the occupants of the other cab were criminals and should be dealt with.

Testifying at the trial, the younger brother of murdered Ajikere said the group was ordered out of the cab and frog-jumped, beaten black and blue and ordered to lay face-down on the tarred road. This was even as the policemen refused to listen to their own side of the story.

Unable to bear the torture any longer, he said, Ajikere tried to stand up and was shot at point-blank range by Cpl. Aminu. His life could not be saved as he was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital that said Ajikere died of excessive bleeding.

Delivering judgment after sentencing the men to death by hanging, Monday, Justice Boma Diepreyi said the sentence would serve as a deterrent to other uniformed men “whose stock-in-trade is to kill innocent citizens under the guise of accidental discharge.”

Diepreyi said it would be unfair to take the plea of both Fabiyi and Aminu for mercy, adding: “In as much as I sympathize with them, there is the blood of the young Nnamdi Ajikere, the deceased 20 year-old final year student of University of Port Harcourt crying for vengeance.

“Justice is a balancing act and the only way to a balanced justice in this case is to make the accused persons face the consequences of their reckless act and hope that this will serve as a deterrent to those who may want to emulate their terrible example.”

Posted: at 29-04-2010 09:13 AM (13 years ago) | Gistmaniac
- anitacute2003 at 29-04-2010 10:49 AM (13 years ago)
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Hmmmm.NIGERIA POLICE,i dnt understand their role in dis country,their damage is far higher than their benefit to the Nation.HMMM

Posted: at 29-04-2010 10:49 AM (13 years ago) | Upcoming
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- Bazemaster at 29-04-2010 11:39 AM (13 years ago)
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The judge makes sense

Posted: at 29-04-2010 11:39 AM (13 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- ejibond at 30-04-2010 04:03 AM (13 years ago)
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Yeah!
Posted: at 30-04-2010 04:03 AM (13 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- blesyn003 at 30-04-2010 05:56 AM (13 years ago)
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Oga police jst waste life lik dat, na dem go ist pick race wen dem c d real robber, useles police robber devil dey wait una 
Posted: at 30-04-2010 05:56 AM (13 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- ejibond at 30-04-2010 10:08 AM (13 years ago)
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Na wa oo!
Posted: at 30-04-2010 10:08 AM (13 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- sabiti at 30-04-2010 07:12 PM (13 years ago)
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if dem b don dey hang dem like dis al dis nonsense 4don stop
Posted: at 30-04-2010 07:12 PM (13 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- sabiti at 30-04-2010 07:12 PM (13 years ago)
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if dem b don dey hang dem like dis al dis nonsense 4don stop
Posted: at 30-04-2010 07:12 PM (13 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- ejibond at 1-05-2010 04:46 PM (13 years ago)
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Abi na
Posted: at 1-05-2010 04:46 PM (13 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- Toks-E at 4-05-2010 10:49 AM (13 years ago)
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mehn, may his soul rest in peace.

Posted: at 4-05-2010 10:49 AM (13 years ago) | Addicted Hero
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- blings_is_back at 4-05-2010 01:13 PM (13 years ago)
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u mean the cops or the boy?
Posted: at 4-05-2010 01:13 PM (13 years ago) | Hero
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- kurupt419 at 4-05-2010 02:08 PM (13 years ago)
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ok
Posted: at 4-05-2010 02:08 PM (13 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- ejibond at 4-05-2010 07:37 PM (13 years ago)
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Quote from: blings_is_back on  4-05-2010 01:13 PM
u mean the cops or the boy?
Help me ask am Shocked
Posted: at 4-05-2010 07:37 PM (13 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- ejibond at 4-05-2010 07:37 PM (13 years ago)
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Quote from: blings_is_back on  4-05-2010 01:13 PM
u mean the cops or the boy?
Help me ask am Shocked
Posted: at 4-05-2010 07:37 PM (13 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- black_samurai at 4-05-2010 08:25 PM (13 years ago)
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What happened to the cab driver? See Justice for naija. That guy also needs severe punishment.

Posted: at 4-05-2010 08:25 PM (13 years ago) | Upcoming
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- ejibond at 4-05-2010 08:27 PM (13 years ago)
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Abi
Posted: at 4-05-2010 08:27 PM (13 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- chudy1800 at 5-05-2010 07:26 PM (13 years ago)
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They deserve what there get even more
Posted: at 5-05-2010 07:26 PM (13 years ago) | Upcoming
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- spicygal08 at 6-05-2010 05:58 PM (13 years ago)
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Na true dat woman talk..no öne is above d law
Posted: at 6-05-2010 05:58 PM (13 years ago) | Upcoming
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- chicco77 at 26-08-2012 03:36 PM (11 years ago)
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 Roll Eyes Roll Eyes Roll Eyes Roll Eyes
Posted: at 26-08-2012 03:36 PM (11 years ago) | Addicted Hero
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- PoliticxGuru at 21-08-2015 09:14 AM (8 years ago)
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Dis one na wa
Posted: at 21-08-2015 09:14 AM (8 years ago) | Hero
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