Monday Abbah, 24, was found guilty of killing his coworker Mr. Rapheal Osugbe and was given the death by hanging penalty by the Abeokuta High Court.
Abbah was found guilty of one count of murder despite entering a not guilty plea.
In her ruling on Friday, Justice O.O. Stanley declared that the prosecution had proven its case beyond a reasonable doubt, finding Abbah guilty of the murder allegation.
She declared the prosecution’s case to be credible, leading her to find Abbah guilty and sentence him to hanging death.
“Monday Abbah, you are hereby sentenced to hang till you die. She prayed, “May God have mercy on you.”
She contends that his behavior does not prove self-defense.
She believed that there was no reason for his behavior given that there was a physical altercation and the dead did not have a weapon that could have been hazardous when he stabbed his victim with a knife.
It’s terrible that this was brought on by rage. I believe this has taught us all something,” she remarked.
The defendant committed the crime on February 13, 2017, at Lexis Plastic Company, which is located near the Lagos/Ibadan Expressway, according to what the prosecution had told the court.
According to the prosecution, the deceased, Osugbe, was a truck driver, while the defendant, who was employed by Lexis Plastic Company, was a laborer.
“On February 13, 2017, Mr. Rapheal Osugbe (dead), driving the company’s vehicle, tried to dump cargo; while he was reversing, the truck mountedon a few empty receptacles that the defendant was organizing inside a bag.
“Osugbe (dead) angrily emerged from his truck, grabbed onto the defendant, and slapped him, which resulted in a physical altercation. The defendant had taken one of the empty containers and thrown it at him.
“During that procedure, Osugbe was stabbed in the neck by Abbah, who was gripping a knife he uses to extract nylon from the plastic container, and blood began to flow.”
The prosecution claimed that although the deceased was sent to the hospital right away, he tragically passed away en route because of a blood shortage.
According to the prosecutor, the offense violated sections 316 and 319 of the Criminal Code, which are statutes passed in Ogun in 2006.
