Man sentenced to death over friend’s murder – Daily Trust

The Kogi State High Court sitting in Okene has sentenced one Abdulmutalib Abduljabar to death by hanging for killing his good friend, Momohjimoh Abduljafar, at GKAS Hotel in Okene.

Delivering judgment on Tuesday, Justice A.S. Hussein discovered the defendant responsible of culpable murder punishable with death beneath Section 221 of the Kogi State Penal Code, 2019 (as amended).

The presiding choose held that the proof tendered by the prosecution was overwhelming and proved past cheap doubt that the defendant deliberately stabbed his good friend to death.