Man sentenced to dying by hanging for killing his buddy in Kogi

A Kogi State High Court sitting in Okene has sentenced one Abdulmutalib Abduljabar to dying by hanging for okay!lling his buddy, Momohjimoh Abduljafar.

Delivering judgment on Tuesday, October 13, 2026, Justice A.S. Hussein discovered the defendant responsible of culpable murder punishable with dying underneath Section 221 of the Kogi State Penal Code, 2019 (as amended).

The presiding choose held that the proof tendered by the prosecution was overwhelming and proved past cheap doubt that the defendant deliberately st@bbed his buddy to d-ath.

According to the prosecution counsel, Esther J. John, Esq., in her written deal with, the defendant stabbed his buddy, Momohjimoh Abduljafar, with a pointy deadly object on June 6, 2025, at GKAS Hotel in Okene, which led to his dying..

In his ruling, Justice Hussein dismissed the argument of counsel to the defendant, Baba Shehu Ahmad, and sentenced Abdulmutalib to d-ath by hanging.

In her response, the prosecuting counsel, Esther John, Esq., expressed satisfaction with the judgment, saying justice had as soon as once more been served, and counseled the presiding choose for the landmark ruling.

However, counsel to the defendant, Baba Shehu Ahmad, mentioned he would file an attraction after learning the licensed true copy of the judgment.

Also, the household of the late Momohjimoh Abduljafar expressed satisfaction with the judgment.