A high court in Port
Harcourt has sentenced three persons to death by hanging for allegedly
assassinating five chiefs of Kula Kingdom and four others in Akuku-Toru Local
Government Area of Rivers State.
The accused persons
SOPAKIRITE IGBIKIS, OTEME-OFORI SOLOMON and CHRISTIAN DON PEDRO were convicted
on a ten count charge of murder and conspiracy.
Justice S. C. AMADI of the
Rivers State High Court found the accused persons guilty of murder and
conspiracy.
The former Chairman of the Kula Council of Chiefs DAN OPUSINGI and
eight others were allegedly attacked and killed by gunmen on their way to Kula
from Abonnema on boat in January 2007.
Counsel to one of the
convicted persons SOSEPIRIYE LONGWILLIAMS expressed dissatisfaction at the
judgment. He said they will appeal
the judgment.
The private prosecutor of
the case OTONYE AMACHREE said the judgment shows that there is a day of
reckoning for murderers.
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