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A Nigerian soldier, Lance Corporal Oge Etudo gave many people the shock of their lives after being found out to have r*ped and killed a woman.
Consequently, an Abuja High Court has okayed the soldier to die by hanging after he was found guilty of the crime.
According to Vanguard, the 30 years old convicted soldier was said to have on March 27, 2014, at Dei-Dei suburb of the FCT, abducted, stabbed and raped a married woman identified as Binta Usman Kadede to death inside the bush.
The randy soldier was previously attached to a battalion of the Nigerian Army at Lungi Barracks in Abuja.
The convict was found to have acted in breach of sections 220 and 221 of the Penal Code law.
Trial Justice A.S. Adepoju who declined plea of allocutus by the defence lawyer, stressed that pictorial evidence adduced before the court showed that the defendant gruesomely murdered his victim.
“I will not also show mercy to him”, the Judge who was almost moved to tears declared.
Consequently, the court convicted the defendant on a two-count criminal charge that was entered against him by FCT commissioner of police.
The charges read: “That you L/Cpl Oge Etudo “M” 27 years of Nigerian Army, Lungi Barracks Abuja on or about March 27, 2014, at about 1600hrs at Dei-Dei, near Conoil filling station, Abuja within the Abuja judicial division did committed culpable homicide punishable with death in that you caused the death of one Binta Usman Kadede “f” of Dei-Dei village Abuja by stabbing her on the neck and body with knife which resulted to her death when you know that death will be the probable consequences of your act. You thereby committed an offence contrary to section 220 of the Penal Code and punishable under section 221 of the Penal Code.
“That you L/Cpl Oge Etudo “M” 27 years of Nigerian Army, Lungi Barracks Abuja on or about March 27, 2014, at about 1600hrs at Dei-Dei, near Conoil filling station, Abuja within the Abuja judicial division did rape one Binta Usman Kadade “f” of Dei-Dei village by forcefully having sexual intercourse with her against her wish and thereafter stabbed her neck and body with knife to death you thereby committed an offence contrary to section 282 of the Penal Code and punishable under section 283 of the Penal Code”.
The defendant had earlier pleaded not guilty to all the charges.
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