The Department of State Services (DSS) has secured the conviction and death sentence of Ibrahim Usman, also known as Dan Iyali, for his involvement in the kidnapping and killing of three persons in Sokoto State in September 2023. Usman was tried on a four-count charge before the Sokoto High Court, sitting in Sokoto, alongside other suspects currently at large. The charges bordered on criminal conspiracy, kidnapping, culpable homicide punishable by death, and voluntarily causing grievous hurt without provocation. Delivering judgement, Justice Mohammed Mohammed of the Sokoto High Court held that the prosecution had proved its case beyond reasonable doubt. Mohammed sentenced Usman to life imprisonment for kidnapping and death by hanging for culpable homicide. The suspect and his accomplices had invaded Bare Village, Goronyo Local Government Area of Sokoto State, on September 9, 2023, while armed with guns, shooting sporadically and kidnapping three persons, who were later killed.
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