An Ikeja High Court yesterday sentenced a 29-year-old trader, Nwajamba Nwauta, to 21 years imprisonment for armed robbery.
Justice Sedotan Ogunsanya convicted him of a two-count charge of conspiracy and armed robbery.
“I find the defendant guilty of the two-count charge, he is hereby sentenced to 21 years in prison,” Ogunsanya said.
The Judge did not condemn him because of the prosecution’s failure to prove that the gun tendered in evidence was the one used in the armed robbery.
“I will not be relying on the evidence of Rasheed Kilani, an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) because the revolver presented as evidence was not recovered by him but by a mob,” Justice Ogunsanya held.
Nwauta was arraigned on a two-count charge of armed robbery, with an accomplice, who is at large.
The prosecutor, Mr Adebayo Haroun, told the court during proceedings that Nwauta and his colleague, while armed with a locally made revolver, went to a jewellery shop, threatened and robbed the salesman, Evan Obi, of a bag containing N25,000, a mobile phone and an unspecified amount of jewellery.
Haroun said Nwauta was caught by a mob following the alarm raised by the salesman.
But his accomplice escaped with the stolen property and jewellery.
He said the convict and his accomplice committed the offence on September 13, 2011 at 24, Isolo Road, Egbe, Lagos.
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