Court jails robber terrorising Uniuyo 21 years

Twenty-five-year-old Emmanuel Sunday Okon, an indigene of Eyo Abasi in Oron LGA of Akwa Ibom State, notorious for armed robbery in the University of Uyo (Uniuyo) and environs, has been jailed 21 years.

Okon was said to have been robbing students at the main campus of their money, phones, laptops, and other valuables.

Before Okon was apprehended, he was said to have used a kitchen knife to dispossess a female student of her Tecno phone and money while she was returning from lectures.

It was gathered that the convict was arrested after security agents laid an ambush for him at the university’s main gate following a series of complaints of robbery within the premises.

While confessing to the crimes, the convict, in his statement to the police, said he usually sold the phones and other valuables he robbed.

Delivering judgment on the matter, Justice Okon Okon of the Akwa Ibom State High Court sitting in Okoita, Ibiono Ibom LGA, found Okon guilty of robbery, punishable under the Robbery and Firearms Special Provisions Act 2004.

The court, however, held that there was no evidence that the accused used actual violence against his victims.

The judgment was delivered at the State High Court, Okoita, following the transfer of Justice Okon from the Uyo Judicial Division, where the incidents occurred, to Ibiono Ibom Judicial Division.