A excessive Court of Adamawa State, on Thursday, sentenced to loss of life three individuals who kidnapped two Catholic clergymen in February 2025.
Delivering judgement, Justice Christopher Mapeo discovered the three males responsible of prison conspiracy to commit kidnapping, kidnapping, conspiracy to commit armed theft, armed theft, harboring a kidnapped particular person and negotiating to obtain ransom for the discharge of
Reverend Fathers Matthew Dutsemi and Abraham Sauman.
The choose sentenced the three males, Taledo Demiel, Namomai Medan and Mikaila Yusuf, to loss of life for kidnapping, armed theft and different offences.
Thursday’s loss of life sentence is the seventh secured by the DSS this yr. On twentieth May, 2026, Ekiti High Court sentenced two males, Ibrahim Abubakar and Abdullahi Abubakar to loss of life by hanging for kidnapping.
About two weeks later, on third June, 2026, a Federal High Court in Abuja sentenced to loss of life by hanging, 4 males who, in June 2022, massacred scores of worshippers on the St. Francis Catholic church, Owo, Ondo State.
The convicts are Idris Abdulmalik Omeiza, Alqasim Idris, Jamiu Abdulmalik and Abdulkareem Idris.
Less than two weeks later, on fifteenth June, 2026, a Katsina High Court sentenced a feminine arms courier, Hauwa’u Mukhtar, to loss of life by hanging.
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The following day, on sixteenth June, 2026, a Kogi High Court sentenced Jibrin Halilu to loss of life by hanging for kidnapping and murdering his neighbour in Obajana, an industrial city within the state.
About per week after the Kogi sentencing, on twenty second June, 2026, a Sokoto High courtroom sentenced three individuals Muhammed Yusuf Sallau, Jabbi Ahlaji Yale and Kabiru Muhammed, to loss of life by hanging, for terrorism and for transporting arms.
Less than three months later, on
twenty eighth September 2026, a Sokoto High Court sentenced Ibrahim Usman aka Dan Iyali to loss of life by hanging over his involvement within the killing of three kidnapped individuals within the state.
