A concerned Nigerian has appealed for leniency after a 23-year-old was
sentenced to death by hanging for stealing an Android phone in Abuja in an
armed robbery.
The culprit, Tope Abiodun was last week sentenced to death by hanging by
a High Court in Abuja. He and his accomplice, Godfrey Emmanuel who got 14 years
in jail, were convicted for stealing an android LG phone valued at N87, 000 and
stabbing their victim in the head in 2013.
According to the concerned Nigerian, Don Capello, he pleaded to the
authorities to consider the plight of the young man due to various reasons he
shared on Facebook. Read below...
'Justice Chizoba Orji
of Apo high court FCT Abuja jailed 23 yrs old Tope Abiodun (from Kabba Kogi
state)to death by hanging for stealing an android LG phone valued at #87,000
naira ....this happened a few weeks ago in a country where those that Looted
billions that were meant to make life easy for such Youths from being tempted
to survive through stealing are out there roaming the streets in freedom .
This is unfair to the poor and vulnerable masses, Tope fluently speaks
Yoruba,igbo and Hausa languages, he has transformed since he was imprisoned
four yrs ago, this is a lad that will assist visitors with their luggage down
to cells of those they came to visit in kuje prison.
He is a good boy we can not allow to die.
I am appealing to well-meaning Nigerians, clergies alike to come to his
aide, he has an aging mother , he was not born to see his father alive , one
can easily understand his upbringing.
Tope Abiodun committed this crime when he was 18yrs old ,he told me ,the
pressure to feed with his younger siblings pushed him to do it . Probably he
did that as an ignorant young boy out of the normal juvenile delinquency stage
in our lives .
God bless you as you do to help him process his case through the appeal
court ,I am so sad about this because I have spent much to help this boy even
though I have my issues at the end the judge gave him a very harsh sentence
(death by hanging )in a case no death was recorded .
Wake up , Good Nigerians!
#HelpTope
May this also teach our young stars a lesson! #pls share this as a way
to assist him
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