According to
report, the execution of the death sentence that was passed on two of the
twelve Nigerian soldiers who were convicted last year by a Military Court
Martial over their alleged complicity in acts of mutiny; has been stopped by the
Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal.
The soldiers
were on September 15, 2014, condemned to death by the General Court Marshal
which sat at the Army Headquarters Garrison, Mogadishu Cantonment in Abuja.
They were
charged with offences that ranged from disobedience to particular order,
insubordination, false accusation, criminal behaviour, conspiracy to commit
mutiny and mutiny under the Armed Forces Act 2004.
Three of the
convicted soldiers, CPL Stephen Clement, CPL Igomu Emmanuel and PTE Andrew
Ngbede, however went before the appellate court through their lawyer, Chief
Godwin Obla, SAN, to challenge the decision of the Court Marshal which
convicted and sentenced them to life imprisonment and death.
The convicted
soldiers, in their separate suits, raised eleven grounds of appeal.
The argued
that they were not granted fair trial, adding that the proceedings of the
General Court Marshal was fraught with many fundamental irregularities.
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