The Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence handed out to an armed robber, Daniel Kekong, who mistakenly sent items he stole from a woman to her to buy.
The prosecution counsel, Ade Oyebanji, said Kekong was among three men who attacked and robbed a recharge card dealer, Perpetua Ubua, of her handbag containing N128,000-worth of recharge cards, N285,000 cash and two mobile phones.
Ubua testified that she was on her way home after the day’s business when her attackers snatched her bag.
She struggled with them but was overpowered, while the boys started shooting to scare people away.
Kekong gave the recharge cards to a friend, Promise Inyang, to sell few days later.
Inyang in turn gave the cards to another friend Elizabeth Obu to help him sell.
Obu took the recharge cards to Ubua and asked her to pay whatever she wished for them, not knowing that she was robbed of the recharge cards.
Ubua reported the matter to the police and the recharge cards were traced to Kekong.
He was tried at the Cross River State High Court, convicted and sentenced to death for armed robbery, while his co-accused Inyang, was discharged.
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