Nigeria - Emeka Nweke, 31, sentenced to death for armed robbery

Emeka Nweke, 31, has been sentenced to death by hanging having been found guilty of robbing his victims of total sum of N5,520, two handsets while armed with cutlass when his gang broke into their apparments. He was sentenced to death by an Asaba high court, which agreed that prosecution proved its case beyond reasonable doubt. Prosecution had told the court that the convicted armed robber with others now at large “robbed Izuchukwu Okeke and other residents. of various sums of cash totaling N5,520 while armed with dangerous weapons at Oduke within the Asaba judicial division on or about the 30th day of September 2012.