Two tricycle robbers have been jailed for 28 years by the Akwa Ibom State High Court in Okoita, Ibiono Ibom Local Government Area of the state.
The convicts, Nsikan Friday Tom, 28, and Augustine Gregory, 27, were sentenced for robbing a passenger while trying to board a tricycle at Okokon Etuk Street in Uyo.
NIGERIACRIME gathered that the convicts, Nsikan Friday Tom (aka Nokia), an indigene of Akpa-Utong in Ibesikpo Asutan Local Government Area and Augustine Gregory from Aka Offot in Uyo robbed their victim of his Lenovo laptop and Gionee M5 phone on August 7, 2016.
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In his ruling Justice Okon Okon, the presiding judge jailed the defendants for 21 years for robbery and also sentenced then to seven years for conspiracy, ordering the jail term to run concurrently.
The judge ruled that the defendants are members of a cult group and also found them guilty of two out of the three counts of conspiracy, armed robbery.
The court stated that although the prosecution has not been able to prove that the robbery was accompanied by a gun, there was ample evidence that the convicts robbed their victim of his laptop and phone.
The court also discharged and acquitted the third accused person, Daniel Bassey Okon, a native of Iwuokpom Okpolom in Ibeno Local Government Area, of all three counts