A Lagos
State High Court in Igbosere on Thursday found
Ezekiel Eloka and Echezona Nwabufor guilty of the murder of a postgraduate
student, Cynthia Osokogu, who they lured from Nasarawa to Lagos before
strangling her to death at a hotel in Festac Town, Lagos, in 2012.
Justice Olabisi
Akinlade declared that after carefully analysing the evidence presented before
the court, testimonies of prosecution witnesses, and confessional statements
the deceased made to the police, she was left with no doubt that the accused
killed Ms. Osokogu.
She also found them
guilty of the second charge of committing felony by stealing her Blackberry
phone saying the prosecution has proved beyond reasonable doubt that
the accused intended and in fact took the life of the deceased in the process
of stealing her phone and belongings.
She also found the duo
guilty of the first and third charge – conspiracy to commit murder and
conspiracy to steal.
Ms. Osokogu who met Mr.
Eloka on Facebook was lured to Lagos and murdered on July 22, 2012, at Cosmilla
Hotel, Lakeview Estate, Festac Town.
The court is still in
session....
Finally, Okwumo Nwabufo and Olisaeloka Ezike were sentenced to death.
Orji Osita, a
pharmacist, was discharged of the charge of recklessness and negligence for
selling prescription drugs without prescription which the accused used in
drugging the deceased.
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