Rivers Man Sodienye Mbatumukeke Sentenced To Death For Killing Jumia Agent Over Iphone Delivery (Photos)

 

A Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt on Monday sentenced one Sodienye Mbatumukeke to death after finding him guilty of two count charges of murder and armed robbery. 

The accused who has been on trial since 2017 alongside one Excel Naabee.

However, Nabee was acquitted and discharged by Justice Chigozie Igwe.

Police had asserted that the two denounced schemed to slaughter one Chukwuma Eleje, a Dispatcher for Jumia, when he went to convey things which incorporated an as iPhone and different assets requested by Mbatumueke and his associate, Naabee in March 2017 in their home situated at Ada George Road in Obio-Akpor nearby government zone of Rivers. 

As indicated by the police, the two denounced had choked Eleje and dump his body in a septic tank. 

His remaining parts was subsequently recuperated by Homicide analysts of the Rivers State Police Command 

The pair were first charged under the watchful eye of a Chief Magistrate Court in Port Harcourt before the case was moved to the State High Court. 

Equity Chigozie Igwe had held judgment till today, 15 January 2021 after the legal advisors to the charged made the last accommodation last December. 

In his accommodation, Bonaventure Ugwu, the guidance to Mbatumueke had encouraged the court to release and vindicate his customer with guarantee that the arraignment didn't demonstrate its case past a sensible uncertainty. 

Fortunate Agor, the legal advisor to Naabee, additionally requested that the court release and clear his customer, contending that the indictment neglected to demonstrate that Naabee was an associate in the homicide of Eleje. 

However, in a counter accommodation, the Prosecution Counsel asked the Court to convict the blamed as the 42 shows and 10 observers introduced under the watchful eye of the court demonstrated their culpability in the homicide of the Jumia specialist. 

He said the confession booth articulation of Mbatumeke demonstrated that he fooled the expired to come into the compound so he could slaughter him and gather his resources.