How killer of party women leader was jailed.

 A High Court sitting in Kogi State within idah area, has onvicted and sentenced one mr Ocholi Edicha to 12 years  and six months in prison for the murder of the state Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP) Women leader, Mrs Salome Abuh.

 The defendant was arraigned on charges bordering on criminal conspiracy, armed robbery and culpable homicide.

 The prosecution in proving his case called at least  five witnesses.

 The court adopted  the oral testimony and witnesses’ accounts, alongside statement made to the police and held it to be sufficient to secure the conviction of the defendant who have bagged 12years, 6months.

However, the convict  denied making statement to the police but partially accepted some aspect of the tendered statement. His confessional statement was admitted by the court which led to his sentence.

 Abuh was on 18/11/2019, shot and set ablaze at her resident in the Ochadamu in Ofu Local Government Area, Kogi State.

 The court convicted and sentenced the defendant to 12 years and 6 months imprisonment for the offences.

 Meanwhile lawyers from be the state Ministry of Justice have vowed to challenge the ruling, saying it was not enough punishment for the offenses.

One of them,  Otigbe Joseph, said the judgment was a surprise and “cannot be equated to the offence committed which bothered on killing.”