A Pastor with a pentecostal Church, Kolawole Samson has been sentenced to death by hanging for allegedly killing Ayo Olaniyi, Okeigbo area of Ondo State.
The pastor matched Olaniyo to death for coming to hunt for a frog in his pond.
He was found guilty of murder by the Ondo High Court .
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late Olaniyi was killed after he went to hunt for frogs with his friends inside a pond owned by Pastor Samson. The Pastor used a machete to inflict injury on him which later led to his death.
Justice Ademola Bola found Pastor Kolawole Samson guilty of inflicting injury on Olayini’s head with a cutlass at Gberinlegi Village, near Okeigbo.
Earlier, the State Attorney General and the Commissioner for Justice, represented by two government lawyers, Mr. Olusegun Akeredolu and Mrs. Omotola Ologun, told the Court that the Pastor, on March 16, 2016, had inflicted severe cuts on the head of Olaniyi when he went hunting frogs with his three other friends in a fish pond owned by the convict in the village near Okeigbo.
The lawyers argued that the offence is contrary to Section 316 and punishable under Section 319 of the Criminal Code, Chapter 37, Laws of the State of Ondo (2006).
The accused claimed that he was not guilty of the offence and the matter went into the trial and he was found culpable for murder.
In the judgment delivered, Justice Bola ruled that all evidence brought before the Court in the last four years showed that Pastor Kolawole Samson was guilty of killing Olaniyi.
The Judge ruled that Pastor Samson should die by hanging.
