Benin – A 25 year-old-man, Ekene Nwanne, was on Thursday
sentenced to 14 years imprisonment by an Egor Magistrates’ Court sitting in
Benin for attempting to use a minor for ritual. Ritual-killings The Police
Prosecutor, Mr O. Omoruyi, told the court that Nwanne, committed the crime on
Sept. 19 at No. 62, Siluko Road, Benin. 
Ritual killings
Ritual killings
He said that the defendant was arraigned
on a count charge of stealing a minor with intension of using the minor for
ritual. Omoruyi said the offence was punishable under Section 371 of the
Criminal Code Cap 48 Vol.
II Laws of the old Benue State of Nigeria, 1976 as
applicable in Edo State. The defendant, however, pleaded guilty to the charge.
The Chief Magistrate, Mrs Igho Bramah,
sentenced him to14 years imprisonment without an option of fine and with hard
labour. Earlier, the prosecutor told the court that the defendant was paid N20,
000 by one Rochas, residing at Orlu in Imo to carry out the assignment.
He said that on Sept. 19, while the
minor was playing outside with her 10-year-old sister, the convict tapped the
minor on the shoulder and she began to fellow him. Omuruyi added that the
sister immediately alerted their mother, who called out the girl’s name but she
did not respond.
The mother raised alarm and Nwanne
was apprehended by neighbours, who dragged him to the Oba Market Police Station
in Benin. The prosecutor said that during interrogation the convict confessed
to the crime.
(NAN)
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