Ebonyi: 2 to die by hanging for kidnapping, selling 2-year-old child for N500,000

From Uchenna Inya, Abakaliki
The Ebonyi State High Court in Abakaliki, the state capital, has sentenced two men; Kelechi Iloke and Ikpere Kingsley, to death by hanging for kidnapping a two-year-old boy whom they sold for   N500,000.
The court found them guilty of kidnapping the child which they carried out on the 23rd day of August 2020.
In the charge marked HAB/50c/202, Kelechi Iloke, a landlord’s son at the Ndufu Amuzu community in Ezza South Local Government Area (LGA) of the state was convicted for kidnapping their tenant’s son Benjamin, 2, by luring him out of their apartment in the guise to buy biscuits for him, but did not bring him back to the parents till date.
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