BREAKING: Court Sentences Killers Of DELSU First-Class Student Elozino Ogege To Death After 9-Year Trial
A Delta State High Court has sentenced two men to death by hanging for the 2019 kidnapping and murder of university student Elozino Ogege. The case, which involved internet fraudsters, faced significant delays over a nine-year trial period.
Why it matters
The verdict provides closure for a high-profile case involving 'Yahoo Yahoo' ritual killings, highlighting ongoing judicial and security challenges in Nigeria.
The court, however, discharged and acquitted the third defendant, Nwosisi Benedict Uche.
A Delta State High Court sitting in Ogwashi-Uku, Aniocha South Local Government Area of Delta State, has sentenced two men convicted of killing a first-class 300-level Mass Communication student of Delta State University (DELSU), Abraka, Elozino Joshualia Ogege, to death by hanging after a nine-year legal battle.
Justice Flora Ngozi Azinge, who delivered the judgment on Wednesday, found Macaulay Desmond Oghenemaro and Enaike Onoriode guilty of conspiracy to commit kidnapping, kidnapping, conspiracy to commit murder and the murder of Ogege.
Ogege, a first-class undergraduate of DELSU and an indigene of Isoko, Delta State, was murdered in 2019 by suspected internet fraudsters popularly known as "Yahoo Yahoo plus boys" in an alleged ritual killing.
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