Three persons were sentenced to death on Thursday, March 30 after being convicted for attempted homicide.
The convicts were found guilty of armed robbery and attempt to murder Abdullahi Onimisi, a professor at the University of Ilorin.
Delivering the sentence, Justice H. Saleeman said that the evidences proved beyond reasonable doubt that the three were culpable of attempt to commit homicide against the professor, including armed robbery.
One of the convicted persons, Opeyemi Esan, is a former driver to Prof. Onimisi. The two others are Benjamin Musa and Oluwasegun Ajiboye.
Mr. Kamalden Ajibade, Kwara State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, said that Esan was acted in concert with the other two out of malice. Esan had been fired previously by Prof. Onimisi for unruly behaviour.
“On September 10, 2016, at the Senior Staff Quarters, University of Ilorin, the accused, while armed with weapons, including guns and machetes, robbed Onimisi and his family of their property, including a car, handsets, jewellery, and other valuables,” Ajibade said.
Esan, however, confessed to the police that he consulted Musa and Ajiboye to assist him in dealing with Prof. Onomisi.