Crime
Two Security Guards To Die By Hanging For Killing Employer
Two security guards, Ayuba Idris and Tasur Abubakar, were given the death penalty by the Ondo State High Court in Akure for the murders of their 71-year-old Ghanaian boss, Kwaku Richard Kwakye, and his 27-year-old daughter, Ms. Tope Kwakye.
At Ojomo Akintan Estate, off the Olu FoaM IIesha/Owo expressway in Akure, a father and daughter were brutally murdered in 2019.
The deceased was a driver for High Chief Ojomo Akintan, a 92-year-old Ondo industrialist, while the prisoners served as security guards at the estate.
Kwakye received a portion of one of the Estate’s flats as a present from Chief Akintan for his honesty and stewardship.
Kwakye hired the guards to help secure the land, but they killed him and his daughter in the process.
Idris and Abubakar were sentenced to death by hanging after they were found guilty for armed robbery and murder.
The victims were killed and the corpses were dumped under the staircase while the suspects fled to Sokoto and Kano States. Their decomposing bodies were found after 16 days.
The suspects who spoke to journalists after they were arrested claimed they took tramadol and Indian hemp on the night they committed the murder.
They said they used cables to strangle their victims to death.
In his ruling, Justice Williams Olamide discharged and acquitted the convicts on both count one and two.
Justice Olamide found the convicts guilty of the offense of conspiracy and sentenced them to seven years imprisonment.
He also found them guilty of Counts four and five and sentenced them to death by hanging by the neck until they are dead.
