"Third defendant, in count one, you, Rufus Emete Michael, are hereby sentenced to seven years imprisonment. In count two, three, four, six, and seven, you, Rufus Emete Michael, are hereby sentenced to death by hanging or through the administration of a lethal injection." "You shall be hanged by the... neck until you are dead. May the Lord have mercy on you." — Edo Special Court Sentences One Of Four Kidnapping Convicts To Death.show more

They said lawyers are learned and well-read and all that, but then I listen to some of them speak, and I wonder how they get to where they are. Even those of us in science can read better than some of these guys. There was also a former Chief Justice of Nigeria, I think Tanko or something, under late Buhari, who was totally abysmal at oral reading. Same thing I observed during the election petition, and again during Nnamdi Kanu’s sentencing. Only a handful are eloquent. The rest I have come across and listened to shock me, to be honest. How did most of them get that hight while being so poor at something as basic as reading? 😵‍💫

Why do I feel like the death penalty in Nigeria is just one paper? But then, don't our politicians deserve these kinds of sentences?

Why are lawyers these days not fluent in pronunciation? Barrister Omotosho also couldn't read MNK's judgment coherently. Many of them are like this, yet they use the same English every day.

gov okpebholo was the one that mk sure the special tribunal is constituted he will not waste time in signing it good news good news

But a Fulani bandit is rehabilitated and reintroduced into the society. Una weldone ooo

The same judgement should have been applied to all the politicians in this country except those that haven’t done anything that would attract such to themselves

And then Boko Haram Members who have killed, raped, destroyed and maimed are pardoned and reintegrated back into the society...or even our military. Make it make sense

Anyone who has taken the life of another, and then when it’s their own turn to receive the same death they happily inflicted on another human like them, they start begging I believe such people that beg, their death day should just be fast tacked carried out the same day

Our Political Leaders Have Done More Evil But They Are Being Escorted By The Force! SAY NO TO CRIME

Every kidnappers , bandits , b /haram members should be treated like this , and na instant judgement it has to be , so that other who are trying to go into such biz will have a re-think

@Mlamy__ So he will first serve 7 years in prison before they kpai Abi how he wan do the two judgements?

Nigeria is an evil country … But terro bandit can be pardon and give second chance …

But we still have repentant boko haram those ones are exceptional kidnappers I still don’t understand why this country bend rules when it come to the northerners

What about the government officials who stole the money that was meant to empower these people and keep them off from kidnapping in the first place???

When was the last time someone was executed in Nigeria.

Intellectual laziness is the bane of legal systems. God help you if you have need for a lawyer, your hope for justice in the main hinges on intellectual capacity.

Terrorist are there o Dem no fit sentence them 🤦

Way to go. No mercy for any kidnapper. Other states should follow this method. Televise their judgement.

Evil will always befall evil doers except they repent quickly!

Lethal injection and hanging again?

Justice!

Good. We know very well they won't be kidnapping anyone ever again. Well done, Judge.

Serious judgment, may justice prevail

Biased justice/judges

Now let’s do the same for the corrupt politicians.

@grok kindly tell me how the case began Cos I've got loads of questions to ask Cos why will one of four be convict to death?

@grok What exactly is their offence?

I hope the governor will have the guts to sign their death warrant..

May the Lord have no single mercy and their condemned souls

Omo 🥹, they should do this to the bandit also instead of rehabilitating them

Who dem kidnap ?

That is what we want Repentant bandits should get the same punishment