The Court of Appeal on Wednesday ruled that Lead City University, an Ibadan-based private university, had been running its law programme illegally.
The three-man panel of judges, in a judgement that lasted about three hours, upturned an earlier decision of an Oyo State High Court which declared illegal the invalidation of the programme by the National Universities Commission (NUC).
The lower court’s judgement was based on a suit filed by a first class graduate of law in the university, Segun Alli, accusing the NUC of denying him the right to proceed to the law school after completing his degree programme in the private university.
Giving the lead judgment, which was unanimously adopted by two other justices, Chidi Uwa upheld the appeal of the NUC, declaring that the university had been operating its law programme without the required accreditation.
The court also held that Mr. Alli lacked the locus standi to initiate the suit in the first place. It held that the matter under contention was between NUC and the Lead City University over compliance with directives to set up a valid Law Faculty.
The Appeal Court said the University had failed to obtain and meet the requirements of the NUC and National Council of Legal Education before graduating students for the same course.
Justice Uwa added that Lead City University had admitted students to study law in the university on 22nd of May 2005 whereas it got a license to operate on 9th June, 2005.
Wondering how the university could be running programmes before it came to existence, Mr. Uwa said the NUC only approved the setting up of a law faculty at the university in 2008, while the university graduated their first law students in 2009, describing same as totally illegal.
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Wednesday, 31 July 2013
Appeal Court Declares Lead City University Law Programme Illegal
The Court of Appeal on Wednesday ruled that Lead City University, an Ibadan-based private university, had been running its law programme illegally.
The three-man panel of judges, in a judgement that lasted about three hours, upturned an earlier decision of an Oyo State High Court which declared illegal the invalidation of the programme by the National Universities Commission (NUC).
The lower court’s judgement was based on a suit filed by a first class graduate of law in the university, Segun Alli, accusing the NUC of denying him the right to proceed to the law school after completing his degree programme in the private university.
Giving the lead judgment, which was unanimously adopted by two other justices, Chidi Uwa upheld the appeal of the NUC, declaring that the university had been operating its law programme without the required accreditation.
The court also held that Mr. Alli lacked the locus standi to initiate the suit in the first place. It held that the matter under contention was between NUC and the Lead City University over compliance with directives to set up a valid Law Faculty.
The Appeal Court said the University had failed to obtain and meet the requirements of the NUC and National Council of Legal Education before graduating students for the same course.
Justice Uwa added that Lead City University had admitted students to study law in the university on 22nd of May 2005 whereas it got a license to operate on 9th June, 2005.
Wondering how the university could be running programmes before it came to existence, Mr. Uwa said the NUC only approved the setting up of a law faculty at the university in 2008, while the university graduated their first law students in 2009, describing same as totally illegal.
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The three-man panel of judges, in a judgement that lasted about three hours, upturned an earlier decision of an Oyo State High Court which declared illegal the invalidation of the programme by the National Universities Commission (NUC).
The lower court’s judgement was based on a suit filed by a first class graduate of law in the university, Segun Alli, accusing the NUC of denying him the right to proceed to the law school after completing his degree programme in the private university.
Giving the lead judgment, which was unanimously adopted by two other justices, Chidi Uwa upheld the appeal of the NUC, declaring that the university had been operating its law programme without the required accreditation.
The court also held that Mr. Alli lacked the locus standi to initiate the suit in the first place. It held that the matter under contention was between NUC and the Lead City University over compliance with directives to set up a valid Law Faculty.
The Appeal Court said the University had failed to obtain and meet the requirements of the NUC and National Council of Legal Education before graduating students for the same course.
Justice Uwa added that Lead City University had admitted students to study law in the university on 22nd of May 2005 whereas it got a license to operate on 9th June, 2005.
Wondering how the university could be running programmes before it came to existence, Mr. Uwa said the NUC only approved the setting up of a law faculty at the university in 2008, while the university graduated their first law students in 2009, describing same as totally illegal.
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Islamic law sanctions marriage based on maturity not age – Ahmad Sani
SENATOR Ahmad Rufai Sani, ANPP, Zamfara West Wednesday said that under the Islamic law, a girl was considered ripe for marriage based on her physical and mental maturity and not necessarily age, just as he stressed that situations could arise where a very big girl was ready for marriage at age 14, 15, 16 as obtained in other countries.
According to him, the 1999 Constitution does not in any way provide for any specific age when a girl could be married, but was quick to add that the same constitution stipulates that any girl aspiring to be married must attain a full age.
Speaking Wednesday in an interview on the ‘Kakaaki’ aired programme by the African Independent Television (AIT), Senator Ahmad Sani who denied backing the child marriages during the clause by clause voting on the report of the Senator Ike Ekweremadu led Constitution review, said insinuations that he supported child marriage during the exercise were untrue, misleading and however attributed that entire criticisms to what he termed, the handiwork of mischief-makers.
According to him, the constitutional provision in the 1999 Constitution was in consonance with the Islamic law which states that for a girl to be married, she must have attained the age of maturity and puberty, adding, “What is the criteria for defining maturity or otherwise of a girl?
‘’The Nigerian constitution didn’t say 18 years. There is no definition in the Nigerian constitution; any woman who is married is of age. You see in Islamic law, once a girl reaches the age of puberty and she is matured she is of full age and she is ready for marriage.
Senator Ahmed Yerima
“And once she is married, she is of full age. And that is why the constitution recognises Islamic law and made that provision. So if you say you are going to remove that provision, you are going against and counter to Islamic law.
“So under Sharia law, any country that practices Sharia, age is not a defining factor for marriage.’’
Commenting on international conventions that pegged the age at which a girl can be married at 18 and to which Nigeria was a signatory, the former governor of Zamfara State noted that such international conventions were inferior to the constitutional provisions of the affected country, adding that once a convention was in conflict with the constitution of any country, the constitution naturally must prevail.
Substantiating his argument, the lawmaker explained that the United Kingdom which is a signatory to the same convention, an age limit of 16 to be eligible to engage in sexual intercourse.
“Today as I am talking to you now let me tell you the consent for girls to have sex is 13 and 14. In Spain it is 13. They all signed these conventions. The conventions are not anything to go by once your constitution makes provisions.
“Under sharia law, you have to be physically and maturely developed.
So if she (a girl) is not the age of 18, Islam does not accept child marriage as you define it. Child marriage is a girl that is not matured, has not reached the age of puberty, she is a minor and it is not age. You can have a very big girl who is ready for marriage at age 14, 15, 16 just as is obtained in other countries. Maturity is defined by her physical appearance, by when a girl starts menstruation for example, she is matured.’’
Senator Sani who also said that under Islamic law, a widow has the right to inherit the property of her late husband no matter her age, declared that “in fact, there is a formula (written); you see as far as Islamic law is concerned Islam has a code of conduct. It has every provision.’’
The Senator who gave an example of his first wife who was 16 years when they got married her at the age of 16 and his second wife, an Egyptian, who was 14 when he married her, said, “It is not the age as far as Islamic law is concerned, it is the maturity and age of puberty.
These issues are all matters of faith. As I said, some people are talking out of ignorance or out of sheer mischief. I am a Muslim and Nigeria is a multi-religious society. That is why our constitution makes ample provision for Sharia law, common law and for customary law.
“So we are expected to live together, appreciate the differences we have and understand ourselves. I should respect the views, aspirations and feelings of Christians and the Christian is expected to respect my own religious faith. If I believe in something and this is the doctrine of Islam, I mean a non-Muslim should not bother to find out why I should believe in that.
“Recently, I saw in Al Jazeera that the present Pope said gays should be allowed freedom in society, whatever it means but the Chairman Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) said he was going to march to the Senate if we approve gay marriage. So these are matters of interpretations.
“In Islamic law, we don’t have problem of interpretation, we have a written law and from the inception of this law every item is clearly defined.
“So in Nigeria today, what is lacking is people do not understand their laws. Some people thought that Senator Yerima decided to introduce new things into the constitution, not knowing that this item is in the constitution. Those who put it there were very sensitive on the issues of our faith – as Muslims and they respect our feelings and aspirations of Muslims.
‘’If you remove the definition of full age, you remove the woman. Like I said if a Moslem woman marries somebody who is not a Nigerian and you want her to live with him, with his own family with the children they have in his own country and you want her to be a citizen of his country and the country does not accept dual citizenship and she is not a kid and you do not make that provision for women; married women what does she do?
“She should wait in Nigeria until she is 18, even though she is married? So it is not even the issue of marriage, not the age of marriage but people are changing the debate to be talking about the marriage of minors.
“Islamic law does not accept for the marriage of a girl that is not matured, a girl that is not of age. This is where we have problem. Islamic law does not recognise age. We recognise maturity and puberty and you can see this from the physical appearance of the girl.
Maturity of mind, maturity of body, maturity of size, everything put together. It is not because of age.
“When I was looking at the UK law they put the age of consent for a girl to have sex or boyfriends at 16; for a homosexual they started with 21, they reduced it to 18, now they are reducing it to 16.
My argument is that somebody who is not a Muslim would not appreciate what is Islamic law. In Islamic law, we don’t use our sense to say well this is what we have to do. We are all guided by what our creator has said we must do. As far as we Muslims are concerned, we have no option, no choice.
“The Child Rights Act based on the Second schedule, Part 1, Section 61 is unconstitutional in relation to Islamic law and customary law. An Igbo woman who marries based on tradition and culture cannot be
prosecuted under the Child Rights Act because the constitution specifically said the National Assembly can make laws for the formation and annulment of marriages excluding marriages under Islamic law and customary law because Islamic law has some specific rules and regulations.
“The Child Rights Act affects only those who conduct their marriages under common law in Nigeria today. The right is valid, it is constitutionally enacted but it affects only when you go and conduct your marriage in the church.’’
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According to him, the 1999 Constitution does not in any way provide for any specific age when a girl could be married, but was quick to add that the same constitution stipulates that any girl aspiring to be married must attain a full age.
Speaking Wednesday in an interview on the ‘Kakaaki’ aired programme by the African Independent Television (AIT), Senator Ahmad Sani who denied backing the child marriages during the clause by clause voting on the report of the Senator Ike Ekweremadu led Constitution review, said insinuations that he supported child marriage during the exercise were untrue, misleading and however attributed that entire criticisms to what he termed, the handiwork of mischief-makers.
According to him, the constitutional provision in the 1999 Constitution was in consonance with the Islamic law which states that for a girl to be married, she must have attained the age of maturity and puberty, adding, “What is the criteria for defining maturity or otherwise of a girl?
‘’The Nigerian constitution didn’t say 18 years. There is no definition in the Nigerian constitution; any woman who is married is of age. You see in Islamic law, once a girl reaches the age of puberty and she is matured she is of full age and she is ready for marriage.
Senator Ahmed Yerima
“And once she is married, she is of full age. And that is why the constitution recognises Islamic law and made that provision. So if you say you are going to remove that provision, you are going against and counter to Islamic law.
“So under Sharia law, any country that practices Sharia, age is not a defining factor for marriage.’’
Commenting on international conventions that pegged the age at which a girl can be married at 18 and to which Nigeria was a signatory, the former governor of Zamfara State noted that such international conventions were inferior to the constitutional provisions of the affected country, adding that once a convention was in conflict with the constitution of any country, the constitution naturally must prevail.
Substantiating his argument, the lawmaker explained that the United Kingdom which is a signatory to the same convention, an age limit of 16 to be eligible to engage in sexual intercourse.
“Today as I am talking to you now let me tell you the consent for girls to have sex is 13 and 14. In Spain it is 13. They all signed these conventions. The conventions are not anything to go by once your constitution makes provisions.
“Under sharia law, you have to be physically and maturely developed.
So if she (a girl) is not the age of 18, Islam does not accept child marriage as you define it. Child marriage is a girl that is not matured, has not reached the age of puberty, she is a minor and it is not age. You can have a very big girl who is ready for marriage at age 14, 15, 16 just as is obtained in other countries. Maturity is defined by her physical appearance, by when a girl starts menstruation for example, she is matured.’’
Senator Sani who also said that under Islamic law, a widow has the right to inherit the property of her late husband no matter her age, declared that “in fact, there is a formula (written); you see as far as Islamic law is concerned Islam has a code of conduct. It has every provision.’’
The Senator who gave an example of his first wife who was 16 years when they got married her at the age of 16 and his second wife, an Egyptian, who was 14 when he married her, said, “It is not the age as far as Islamic law is concerned, it is the maturity and age of puberty.
These issues are all matters of faith. As I said, some people are talking out of ignorance or out of sheer mischief. I am a Muslim and Nigeria is a multi-religious society. That is why our constitution makes ample provision for Sharia law, common law and for customary law.
“So we are expected to live together, appreciate the differences we have and understand ourselves. I should respect the views, aspirations and feelings of Christians and the Christian is expected to respect my own religious faith. If I believe in something and this is the doctrine of Islam, I mean a non-Muslim should not bother to find out why I should believe in that.
“Recently, I saw in Al Jazeera that the present Pope said gays should be allowed freedom in society, whatever it means but the Chairman Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) said he was going to march to the Senate if we approve gay marriage. So these are matters of interpretations.
“In Islamic law, we don’t have problem of interpretation, we have a written law and from the inception of this law every item is clearly defined.
“So in Nigeria today, what is lacking is people do not understand their laws. Some people thought that Senator Yerima decided to introduce new things into the constitution, not knowing that this item is in the constitution. Those who put it there were very sensitive on the issues of our faith – as Muslims and they respect our feelings and aspirations of Muslims.
‘’If you remove the definition of full age, you remove the woman. Like I said if a Moslem woman marries somebody who is not a Nigerian and you want her to live with him, with his own family with the children they have in his own country and you want her to be a citizen of his country and the country does not accept dual citizenship and she is not a kid and you do not make that provision for women; married women what does she do?
“She should wait in Nigeria until she is 18, even though she is married? So it is not even the issue of marriage, not the age of marriage but people are changing the debate to be talking about the marriage of minors.
“Islamic law does not accept for the marriage of a girl that is not matured, a girl that is not of age. This is where we have problem. Islamic law does not recognise age. We recognise maturity and puberty and you can see this from the physical appearance of the girl.
Maturity of mind, maturity of body, maturity of size, everything put together. It is not because of age.
“When I was looking at the UK law they put the age of consent for a girl to have sex or boyfriends at 16; for a homosexual they started with 21, they reduced it to 18, now they are reducing it to 16.
My argument is that somebody who is not a Muslim would not appreciate what is Islamic law. In Islamic law, we don’t use our sense to say well this is what we have to do. We are all guided by what our creator has said we must do. As far as we Muslims are concerned, we have no option, no choice.
“The Child Rights Act based on the Second schedule, Part 1, Section 61 is unconstitutional in relation to Islamic law and customary law. An Igbo woman who marries based on tradition and culture cannot be
prosecuted under the Child Rights Act because the constitution specifically said the National Assembly can make laws for the formation and annulment of marriages excluding marriages under Islamic law and customary law because Islamic law has some specific rules and regulations.
“The Child Rights Act affects only those who conduct their marriages under common law in Nigeria today. The right is valid, it is constitutionally enacted but it affects only when you go and conduct your marriage in the church.’’
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12-Yr-Old Boy Rapes 9 Yr-Old Girl
A 12-year-old boy who raped a nine-year-old girl after viewing pornography on the internet has avoided a custodial sentence, UK.
The High Court in Edinburgh was told the boy, who is now 14, was "emulating" the actions he had seen after having "unfettered" online access.
Defence counsel said the case could represent the "tip of the iceberg". Judge Lady Smith said the case would be referred to the Children's Panel and the boy kept under supervision.
The boy's defence counsel, Sean Templeton said: "There is a real risk that young people of the current generation of teenagers are growing up with a skewed view of what sex is and sexual activity."
He said it was a great concern that they could be getting sex education through pornographers.
He added: "He was afforded unfettered access to the internet and it has become apparent from a very young age, the age of 12, he was accessing hard-core pornography."
Mr Templeton said that the boy had identified the websites he visited to police. "The behaviour witnessed was reminiscent of the acts carried out by him," he said.
Lady Smith told the teenager that having looked at detailed reports prepared in his case, she could consider a non-custodial sentence.
Behave sexually
She told the boy he must "behave" and that he was being given an opportunity to "make something" of himself, to put his mistakes behind him and accept the wrongdoing and to think carefully of what it was like for the girl and "what she is living with because of that wrongdoing".
The judge told him: "You should not and must not regard pornography as any guide at all as to how to behave sexually."
The judge pointed out that he had pled guilty to statutory offences under the Sexual Offences (Scotland) Act 2009.
The boy, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, had earlier admitted statutory offences of rape and sexual assault committed between 1 December 2010 and 31 January 2011 at a Scottish island community.
Advocate depute, Jane Farquharson said the offences came to light after the girl complained of having a sore stomach.
She eventually asked her mother if her problem could be because she was about to have a baby.
Her mother asked her if something had happened to her and she became hysterical before revealing what the boy had done.
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The High Court in Edinburgh was told the boy, who is now 14, was "emulating" the actions he had seen after having "unfettered" online access.
Defence counsel said the case could represent the "tip of the iceberg". Judge Lady Smith said the case would be referred to the Children's Panel and the boy kept under supervision.
The boy's defence counsel, Sean Templeton said: "There is a real risk that young people of the current generation of teenagers are growing up with a skewed view of what sex is and sexual activity."
He said it was a great concern that they could be getting sex education through pornographers.
He added: "He was afforded unfettered access to the internet and it has become apparent from a very young age, the age of 12, he was accessing hard-core pornography."
Mr Templeton said that the boy had identified the websites he visited to police. "The behaviour witnessed was reminiscent of the acts carried out by him," he said.
Lady Smith told the teenager that having looked at detailed reports prepared in his case, she could consider a non-custodial sentence.
Behave sexually
She told the boy he must "behave" and that he was being given an opportunity to "make something" of himself, to put his mistakes behind him and accept the wrongdoing and to think carefully of what it was like for the girl and "what she is living with because of that wrongdoing".
The judge told him: "You should not and must not regard pornography as any guide at all as to how to behave sexually."
The judge pointed out that he had pled guilty to statutory offences under the Sexual Offences (Scotland) Act 2009.
The boy, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, had earlier admitted statutory offences of rape and sexual assault committed between 1 December 2010 and 31 January 2011 at a Scottish island community.
Advocate depute, Jane Farquharson said the offences came to light after the girl complained of having a sore stomach.
She eventually asked her mother if her problem could be because she was about to have a baby.
Her mother asked her if something had happened to her and she became hysterical before revealing what the boy had done.
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SHOCKING: Man Scales Fence To Have Sex With Mad Woman
21-year-old Lateef Sulaiman has been arrested by Officials of the Lagos State Government for allegedly scaling a 14-feet fence to gain entrance into the Lagos State Rehabilitation and Training Centre, Majidun area of Ikorodu, Lagos, southwest Nigeria, to have sex with a mad woman.
Sulaiman was said to have jumped into the female dormitory around 9.30 p.m. recently and had sex with a deranged woman before he was arrested and handed over to the taskforce at Alausa.
In his confessional statement at the taskforce headquarters, Sulaiman allegedly said he had had sex with a mad woman at the rehabilitation centre on five occasions before his arrest, saying that he knew where the female dormitory was because he had gone to the centre in the past to seek employment and had thoroughly studied the environment.
He was arraigned at the Special Offences Court, Alausa in Ikeja for his alleged offence
Sulaiman was slammed with a four-count charge. In the first count charge, he was said to have scaled the 14-feet fence of the rehabilitation home and slept with a mentally ill inmate and thus committed an offence punishable under the laws of Lagos State.
Having pleaded not guilty, he was granted bail in the sum of N50, 000 with two sureties who must be civil servants and present evidence of tax payment for five years.
Sulaiman could not meet the bail conditions and was remanded at the Badagry Prison.
Special Adviser to the Governor on Youth and Social Development, Dr. Dolapo Badru, lamented that there is a lot of satanic rituals going on in the society, wondering what could have made a young man scale the fence to sleep with a mad woman.
"It is this same satanic ritual that makes a herbalist to tell a man to bring the private part of somebody to be used for rituals without killing the person in order to get rich," he said.
He said it is senseless and baseless for a man to want to sleep with a mad woman, thinking that his fortune in life would change for the better.
According to him, the only thing such a bizarre act could do to a man was to make him contract deadly diseases.
"This act is simply part of the activities of ritualists and a way to get money in a quick means. The case is in court," he said.
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Sulaiman was said to have jumped into the female dormitory around 9.30 p.m. recently and had sex with a deranged woman before he was arrested and handed over to the taskforce at Alausa.
In his confessional statement at the taskforce headquarters, Sulaiman allegedly said he had had sex with a mad woman at the rehabilitation centre on five occasions before his arrest, saying that he knew where the female dormitory was because he had gone to the centre in the past to seek employment and had thoroughly studied the environment.
He was arraigned at the Special Offences Court, Alausa in Ikeja for his alleged offence
Sulaiman was slammed with a four-count charge. In the first count charge, he was said to have scaled the 14-feet fence of the rehabilitation home and slept with a mentally ill inmate and thus committed an offence punishable under the laws of Lagos State.
Having pleaded not guilty, he was granted bail in the sum of N50, 000 with two sureties who must be civil servants and present evidence of tax payment for five years.
Sulaiman could not meet the bail conditions and was remanded at the Badagry Prison.
Special Adviser to the Governor on Youth and Social Development, Dr. Dolapo Badru, lamented that there is a lot of satanic rituals going on in the society, wondering what could have made a young man scale the fence to sleep with a mad woman.
"It is this same satanic ritual that makes a herbalist to tell a man to bring the private part of somebody to be used for rituals without killing the person in order to get rich," he said.
He said it is senseless and baseless for a man to want to sleep with a mad woman, thinking that his fortune in life would change for the better.
According to him, the only thing such a bizarre act could do to a man was to make him contract deadly diseases.
"This act is simply part of the activities of ritualists and a way to get money in a quick means. The case is in court," he said.
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Fake Herbalist Who Dupes People Arrested
A suspected fraudster who posed as a herbalist, an estate agent and phone repairer to dupe at least ten people of various sums of money, has been nabbed by his victims at Ijagemo, Lagos.
It was learnt that Gbenga Ogunmefun posed as a herbalist and collected N30,000 from a housewife simply called Morufa.
But he was unable to heal her of her ailment and refused to refund her money.
The suspect who lives in Bada compound, Baba Fatia's house, Ijagemo, allegedly collected phones and cash from a man called Aro, a lady called Vivian and another woman known as Iya Falda.
It was gathered Ogunmefun who claimed to come from Odeda in Odeda Local Government Area of Ogun State, also posed as an estate agent and allegedly collected N20,000 from Joseph Sunday but he failed to provide him accommodation or refund his money.
When some of the victims dragged Ogunmefun before High Chief Hakeem Babatunde Balogun, he admitted duping the people and promised to refund whatever he swindled from them.
After an initial deposit of N10,000, the supect signed an undertaking to pay N7,000 monthtly instalment until he had paid the money he extorted from his victims.
In the undertaking signed by his wife, Mrs. Reginje Ogunmefun as a witness, dated 29 July, 2013, the suspect promised to refund all the phones in his custody to their owners.
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It was learnt that Gbenga Ogunmefun posed as a herbalist and collected N30,000 from a housewife simply called Morufa.
But he was unable to heal her of her ailment and refused to refund her money.
The suspect who lives in Bada compound, Baba Fatia's house, Ijagemo, allegedly collected phones and cash from a man called Aro, a lady called Vivian and another woman known as Iya Falda.
It was gathered Ogunmefun who claimed to come from Odeda in Odeda Local Government Area of Ogun State, also posed as an estate agent and allegedly collected N20,000 from Joseph Sunday but he failed to provide him accommodation or refund his money.
When some of the victims dragged Ogunmefun before High Chief Hakeem Babatunde Balogun, he admitted duping the people and promised to refund whatever he swindled from them.
After an initial deposit of N10,000, the supect signed an undertaking to pay N7,000 monthtly instalment until he had paid the money he extorted from his victims.
In the undertaking signed by his wife, Mrs. Reginje Ogunmefun as a witness, dated 29 July, 2013, the suspect promised to refund all the phones in his custody to their owners.
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'Death Sentence': Tourists Abducted, Robbed and Murdered
A Kenyan court has sentenced a hotel resort worker to death after convicting him of being in a gang which murdered a British tourist and abducted his wife.
Judith Tebbutt, of Hertfordshire, was held for six months in Somalia after pirates shot her husband David in 2011.
The Met Police, which helped the Kenyan probe, said Ali Babitu Kololo, 27, was found guilty of robbery with violence.
Kenya has not carried out a death sentence since 1987, and Kololo is expected to serve a prison term.
He had been sacked from his job several months before he guided the kidnappers to the Tebbutts' villa at the remote resort on an island in Kenya's Lamu archipelago.
He pleaded not guilty at his trial held in the town of Lamu, and said he had been acting under duress.
The Met Police said a small team of counter-terrorism officers travelled to Kenya shortly after the murder and kidnap to support the local police investigation.
The inquiry matched footprints found on the beach to the shoes worn by Kololo when he was arrested shortly after the incident.
The Foreign Office confirmed the death penalty had been imposed, but said it was not expected to be carried out because of a moratorium in place since 1987.
A spokesman said: "We welcome efforts by the Kenyan authorities to bring those responsible for the kidnap of Judith Tebbutt and the murder of her husband, David, to justice.
"Today's news that Ali Babitu Kololo has been found guilty of robbery with violence is a positive development, but the wider Kenya investigations continue."
Writing on Twitter, the UK ambassador to Somalia, Neil Wigan, said: "Welcome conviction in Lamu today of Kololo for his role in Tebbutt kidnap and murder."
The Tebbutts, from Bishop's Stortford, travelled to the resort, close to the Somalia border, after visiting the Masai Mara game reserve.
In an interview with the BBC last week, Mrs Tebbutt, 58, said she felt uncomfortable after arriving at the beach resort for a two-week stay as she and her publisher husband were the only guests.
She was awoken by the sounds of her husband struggling with someone in the dark. Then she was jabbed with the barrel of a rifle and dragged down to the beach.
She revealed after her release she remained unaware that the gang had killed her husband for two weeks after she was kidnapped.
Her release came after her family reportedly paid a ransom.
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Judith Tebbutt, of Hertfordshire, was held for six months in Somalia after pirates shot her husband David in 2011.
The Met Police, which helped the Kenyan probe, said Ali Babitu Kololo, 27, was found guilty of robbery with violence.
Kenya has not carried out a death sentence since 1987, and Kololo is expected to serve a prison term.
He had been sacked from his job several months before he guided the kidnappers to the Tebbutts' villa at the remote resort on an island in Kenya's Lamu archipelago.
He pleaded not guilty at his trial held in the town of Lamu, and said he had been acting under duress.
The Met Police said a small team of counter-terrorism officers travelled to Kenya shortly after the murder and kidnap to support the local police investigation.
The inquiry matched footprints found on the beach to the shoes worn by Kololo when he was arrested shortly after the incident.
The Foreign Office confirmed the death penalty had been imposed, but said it was not expected to be carried out because of a moratorium in place since 1987.
A spokesman said: "We welcome efforts by the Kenyan authorities to bring those responsible for the kidnap of Judith Tebbutt and the murder of her husband, David, to justice.
"Today's news that Ali Babitu Kololo has been found guilty of robbery with violence is a positive development, but the wider Kenya investigations continue."
Writing on Twitter, the UK ambassador to Somalia, Neil Wigan, said: "Welcome conviction in Lamu today of Kololo for his role in Tebbutt kidnap and murder."
The Tebbutts, from Bishop's Stortford, travelled to the resort, close to the Somalia border, after visiting the Masai Mara game reserve.
In an interview with the BBC last week, Mrs Tebbutt, 58, said she felt uncomfortable after arriving at the beach resort for a two-week stay as she and her publisher husband were the only guests.
She was awoken by the sounds of her husband struggling with someone in the dark. Then she was jabbed with the barrel of a rifle and dragged down to the beach.
She revealed after her release she remained unaware that the gang had killed her husband for two weeks after she was kidnapped.
Her release came after her family reportedly paid a ransom.
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