UWANI MUSA ABBA AJI, J.S.C. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): On Sunday 3/12/2006 at about 7:00pm the Appellant with 4 other accused persons jointly tried and others at large attacked with matchet and a gun, the deceased, Elijah Okeeke Andrew, a pastor of the Apostolic Church, in his residence at Baa Lorre community in Khana Local Government Area of Rivers State, immediately he returned from church service, and inflicted several matchet cuts all over his body in the full glare of the deceased’s sister, Hannah Andrew (PW1), and the deceased’s daughter, Joy Andrew (PW2), leading to his instant death and carted away his corpse in a white bus. The deceased’s daughter, who wailed and fell on the deceased’s body also was given matchet cuts on her head, left and back side. The deceased’s decomposed body was later recovered on 7/12/2006 at Korogua village waterside in Oyigbo Local Government Area of Rivers State. The Appellant fled away from Baa-Lorre community and was subsequently arrested …
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(2021) JELR 108798 (SC)
Supreme Court 15 Jan 2021 Nigeria
Case
Key Passages 14
Citing Cases 4
BriefBot Summary
- The appellant, along with four others, was convicted of the murder of Pastor Elijah Okeeke Andrew, who was attacked with machetes and a gun in the presence of eyewitnesses (PW1 and PW2) at his home in Rivers State, with his corpse subsequ
Case Details
Suit Number:SC.925/2018
Judges:Olabode Rhodes-Vivour, JSC
Kudirat Motonmori Olatokunbo Kekere-Ekun, JSC
Chima Centus Nweze, JSC
Amina Adamu Augie, JSC
Uwani Musa Abba Aji, JSC
Counsel:DAGOGO I. IBOROMA, ESQ., with him, B, IBOROMA, ESQ. For the Appellant;
DAMIAN O. OKORO, ESQ. For the Respondent.
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