
Udoetuk and Oji
A court in Ghana has sentenced two Nigerian men to death in the country after they were found guilty of murder Friday afternoon.
The two Nigerians were accused of kidnapping and eventually killing four girls in Takoradi, Ghana.
The two Nigerians, Samuel Udoetuk Wills and John Oji, were sentenced after they were found guilty of kidnapping and eventually killing the four girls, Ruth Quayson, Priscilla Blessing Bentum, Priscilla Koranchie and Ruth Abekah, aged 18 years in Takoradi, Ghana.
The bodies of the girls were said to have been discovered in their apartment in 2019 following months of a national search for the victims. The two Nigerians have been in detention since then.
According to reports from Ghanaweb, a Ghanaian online news agency, the two Nigerians were found guilty by the seven-member jury at the Sekondi High Court on Friday.
The two accused persons were before the Sekondi High Court on eight counts of conspiracy to commit murder and murder. They however pleaded not guilty to all the charges
The High Court, presided over by Justice Richard Adjei-Frimpong, gave the death sentence after the seven-member jury found them guilty.
They have however been given 30 days within which they can appeal the sentence.
You may be interested

Video of Mobile police officers slapping Prophet Odumeje as bulldozers destroy his church
Webby - July 7, 2022Popular Anambra pastor and General Overseer Mountain of Holy Ghost Intervention Deliverance Ministry Pastor Odumeje is not a happy man,…

Ekweremadu, wife plead not guilty to charges of human trafficking, others
Webby - July 7, 2022Former Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, and his wife, Beatrice, have pleaded not guilty to the charges of human…

Ekweremadu: Alleged victim of organ harvesting David nwamini admits he’s 21
Webby - July 7, 2022July 07, (THEWILL) – David Ukpo Nwamini, the alleged victim of organ trafficking involving Senator Ike Ekweremadu and his wife,…