In Koton-Karfi in Kogi state where a High Court sentenced a herbalist identified as Ibrahim Muhammed, to death by hanging for
murdering two brothers, Mohammed Kudu Abubakar and Umar Tanko Abubakar after
snatching their car in January 2016.
According to police report, the condemned herbalist snatched
the Toyota Carina E Wagon the brothers were riding in at Kungbani Village in
the Kogi Local Government Area.
After he snatched the car from them, he poisoned them and
left them to die. When the poison did not affect the brothers, he used a pestle
to hit them until they died. He then buried them in his compound. Delivering judgment
in the case yesterday, the Presiding Judge, Justice Alaba Omolaye-Ajileye,
described the herbalist's act as a high level of exceptional wickedness.
“This is a high level of
exceptional wickedness. I hold that after poisoning the two brothers as the
accused confessed in his downright criminality, he hit their heads with pestle
(Exhibit P7) to hasten their annihilation. And, in order to avoid any trace of
his brutal and inhuman act, the accused buried the dead bodies of Tanko and
Mohammed in his compound. Unfortunately for him, since nothing is hidden under
the sky, nemesis caught up with him. By the application of an unusual but most
excellent investigatory dexterity, the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of the
Nigeria Police, Kogi State, exposed the apparently hidden crime. By your own
word, after poisoning both Tanko and Mohammed and they refused to die, you used
a pestle to hit them on their heads. That was a brutal homicide committed with
determination and ruthlessness. The manner you committed it by your own
description, make it a high-level exceptional wickedness that it can only be
properly marked by death sentence, which is the only sentence I can pass on
you,” he ruled. The remains of the deceased brothers have been exhumed and
buried properly