Three men have been sentenced to death by hanging for kidnapping by a State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt.
Justice Monina Danagogo presided over the case which held on Thursday
According to Channels TV the three men identified as Boma Thompson, Emelike Mathias, and Daniel Thankgod, were convicted on four charges of conspiracy to kidnap, kidnapping, conspiracy to murder, and murder of late Chief Abbot Ogbobula in 2017.
late Chief Ogbobula was kidnapped in Ahoada and taken by his abductors to Manikin Bush in Degema LGA where he was held hostage and died eventually in the hands of his abductors.
He was buried in a shallow grave in the said bush but his body was later exhumed in the course of a police investigation of the case.
