Last week, a 23-year-old boy identified as Tope Abiodun, was sentenced to death by hanging by a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) for stealing an android LG phone valued at N87, 000.
A concerned Nigerian man has appealed to authorities to consider the plight of the young man due to various reasons he shared below;
Read what was shared by Don Capello
Justice Chizoba Orji of Apo high court FCT Abuja jailed 23 yrs old Tope Abiodun (from Kabba Kogi state)to death by hanging for stealing an android LG phone valued at #87,000 naira ….this happened few weeks ago in a country where those that Looted billions that were meant to make life easy for such Youths from being tempted to survive through stealing are out there roaming the streets in freedom .
This is unfair to the poor and vulnerable masses, Tope fluently speaks yoruba, igbo and Hausa languages, he has transformed since he was imprisoned four yrs ago, this is a lad that will assist visitors with their luggage down to cells of those they came to visit in kuje prison.
He is a good boy we can not allow to die. I am appealing to well-meaning Nigerians, clergies alike to come to his aid, he has an ageing mother, he was not born to see his father alive, one can easily understand his upbringing.
Tope Abiodun committed this crime when he was 18yrs old, he told me the pressure to feed with his younger siblings pushed him to do it.
Probably he did that as an ignorant young boy out of the normal juvenile delinquency stage in our lives.
God bless you as you do to help him process his case through the appeal court, I am so sad about this because I have spent much to help this boy even though I have my issues at the end the judge gave him a very harsh sentence (death by hanging )in a case no death was recorded .
Wake up, Good Nigerians!
#HelpTope
May this also teach our young stars a lesson! #pls share this as a way to assist him