Two robbers were sentenced to death for stealing fowls.

Justice Jide Falola of an
Osun State High Court sitting in
Okuku has sentenced two robbers
to death for stealing fowls.
The convicts, Olowookere Segun
and Morakinyo Sunday, were found
guilty of forcefully breaking into
the house of one Mr. Balogun
Tope, a police officer attached to
Divisional Police headquarters,
Okuku, in April 2010 and carting
away some of his belongings.
The convicts were charged with
conspiracy, robbery and stealing
contrary to Section 6(b) and 1(2)
(a) of Robbery and Firearm
(Special Provisions) Act, cap R 11
Laws of Federation of Nigeria 2004
and Section (390)(1) Criminal
Code Law, Cap 34, Laws of Osun
State, 2002.
The prosecution team, led by the
state Solicitor-General, Mrs Abiola
Adewemimo, called six witnesses
and tendered several exhibits
during the prosecution.
The prosecution told the court that
on November 13, 2010, men were
sighted around Balogun’s home
armed with cutlass and a dane
gun, and that while two of them
were arrested, others escaped.
The convicts were said to have
confessed that they stole the
complainant’s fowls, adding that
they had been in his house before
to steal.
Adewemimo said: “They also
stated that they had earlier robbed
Alhaja Umani Oyewo in her house
and stole broilers, eggs and kegs
of vegetable oil from the house.”
In his judgment, Justice Falola
convicted them on only three
counts: to death for conspiracy;
life sentence for robbery, and three
years imprisonment for stealing.
Justice Falola recommended that
the governor can decide to
commute the death sentence to 10
years imprisonment, considering
the convicts’ ages.