Man sentenced to death, accomplice 14 years for killing twins

A High Court sitting at Asaba, the Delta State capital, has sentenced one Onuwa Ijie to death while his accomplice, Nwanozie Uzor, bagged 14 years imprisonment for murder and conspiracy to murder twin boys, Chidalu and Chigozie Agwunobi.
The court presided over on Tuesday by Onome Umukoro sentenced the two over the murder of the seven-year-old boys.
The prosecution conducted by a Deputy Director in the Ministry of Justice, Paula Akpoguma, in proof of the case called five witnesses.
The prosecution stated that tragedy struck the family of Olise Agwunobi of Oko-Ogbele Community on March 5, 2020 when their seven- year-old twin boys were lured by the defendants to a bush and proceeded to cut off their penis, eyes, tongues and hands which they hurriedly took to a native doctor at Aguleri in Anambra State.
Speaking with journalists after the Judgment on Tuesday, the prosecuting counsel, Paula Akpoguma, thanked the court for upholding the course of justice, “reaffirming that the judicial system works.”