A Cattle herdsman who killed a colleague he suspected of stealing his ‘juju’ and GH¢10 was yesterday sentenced to death by hanging for murder by the High Court in Tamale.
A seven-member jury returned a unanimous veerdict of guilt of murder against Yakubu Bello, 24, for murdering his colleague, Mahamadu Fulani, at Fulanipe, a village near Salaga in the East Gonja District in the Northern Region.
The facts of the case, as presented by a Senior State Attorney, Mr Salia Abdul-Quddus, were that Bello and the deceased were both herdsmen employed by a cattle owner at Fulanipe.
Mr Abdul-Quddus had told the court, presided over by Mr Justice Laurent Mensah, that Bello and the deceased lived 300 metres away from where the kraal was located.
About 5:30 a.m. on March 2, 2004, the cattle owner visited the kraal to see how his employees were faring, but to his utter shock and surprise, he found Fulani dead and lying in a pool of blood.
According to the prosecution, the cattle owner then returned home and informed his sons about the incident and later returned to the kraal with his sons and because Bello was nowhere to be found, they decided to look for him.
They found Bello hiding in an obscure place of the kraal and he attempted to run away but they managed to arrest him and hand him over to the police.
The prosecution stated that Bello confessed that he had committed the crime and explained he killed his colleague because he had stolen his “juju” and GH¢10.
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