Three die by hanging for armed robbery

Three young men: Sola Oyebanji a.k.a Solademmy, 31, Azeez Jimoh a.k.a. Asela, 31, and Babatunde Ogunlade, 28 were on Monday sentenced to death by hanging for armed robbery by an Ekiti High Court sitting in Ado-Ekiti. Oyewole called five witnesses and tendered the defendants’ statements to the police, phones, wraps of Indian hemp, a motorcycle with its ignition key among others as exhibits. According to the counsel, as at the time of the robbery, they were armed with big stick, club, stone, cutlasses and gun.