The Nigerian Air Force has sentenced to death by hanging
Airman Kalu Bernard, for killing his lover, Solape Oladipupo, aka Shomzy
Shomzy, on March 12, 2017.
The judgment, which started 9am on Tuesday, dragged till
4pm when it was stood down before the panellists reconvened at 7.30pm.
Reading out the 70-page
court findings, which lasted for about two hours, the Judge Advocate,
Flight Lieutenant M.A. Umoh, listed the eight-count charges against 21-year-old
Kalu to include murder, house breaking, impersonation, attempted murder, among
others.
The defence counsel, Abimiku Ewuga, urged the court to
temper justice with mercy, saying the accused was his family breadwinner.
The President of the court, Gp. Capt. Elisha Bindul, who
found the accused guilty in six out of the eight counts, sentenced him to death
by hanging, subject to the confirmation of the conveying authority.
Ewuga later told reporters that he would appeal the
judgement.
Kalu had on March 12, 2017, killed Oladipupo at her
Corporal and Below Quarters, Compound 9, Air Force Base, Makurdi, on the
suspicion that she was in a love relationship with another man.
He had broken into Oladipupo’s home before shooting her
in the neck at close range.
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