Court Sentences Man To 21 Years Imprisonment Over Robbery Of UNIUYO Students

Akwa Ibom State high court, sitting in Ibiono Ibom Local Government Area, has sentenced a 25-year-old man identified as Emmanuel Okon, to 21 years jail term for robbing students of the University of Uyo and dispossessing them of their valuables including laptops and phones.

Okon, who happens to be a native of Eyo Abasi in Oron Local Government Area was arrested after the security agency at the Main Campus of the university laid ambush for him following a series of complaints of robbery by the students.

His last victim was a female student, whom he used a knife to dispossess of her Techno phone and money while the victim was returning from lectures on the 9th of April, 2018.

In his extra-judicial statement to the Police, Okon confessed that he sold the phone to a man at Akamba Nsukara Offot at the rate of six thousand Naira.

While delivering judgment on Friday, trial judge, Justice Okon Okon stated that the convict was guilty of robbery, a charge, which is punishable under the Robbery and Firearms Special Provisions Act 2004. He held that the prosecution has proven the identity of the accused beyond reasonable doubt, that it was him that robbed the student on 9th April 2018.

The Court however held that there was no evidence that the accused used actual violence against his victims.

The judgment was delivered at the State High Court, Okoita, following the transfer of Justice Okon from the Uyo Judicial Division, where the incident occurred to the Ibiono Ibom Judicial Division.