A Yenagoa high court presided over by Justice Nayai
Aganaba, Friday, sentenced a graduate of Geology from the University of
Calabar, Okonkwo Michael, to seven years in jail for conspiracy and robbery of
N200,000.
Okonkwo Michael, according to the
prosecution, had in 2011 conspired with one Innocent Ebere, trailed a driver
and staff of the Bayelsa State Judicial Service Commission, Monday Ikisa, from
a first generation bank along the Imgbi road of the state capital and
dispossessed him of N200,000 at gun point.
According to the witness, the victim
of the robbery attack was trailed on motorcycle and attacked close to the NNPC
mega filling station.
But luck ran out on the robbers when
the victim of the attack gave them a chase in his vehicle and ran them over
along the Azikoro road area.
The motorcycle rider, identified as
Innocent Ebere, escaped but Okonkwo Michael was arrested.
According to the prosecution,
Okonkwo Michael was in 1999/2000 part of the second batch corps member in the
state and had worked as a personal assistant to a serving senator from Bayelsa
State.
Source: Vanguard Newspaper
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