27/09/2025
JUST IN: This information might change your mood.
Akwa Ibom State High Court sitting in Uyo has sentenced a dismissed soldier with the Nigerian Army, 6 Battalion, Ibagwa in Abak, Corporal Stephen Iweh, to dēath by hang!ng for the murder of a 42-year-old man, Christopher Enobong Jimmy.
The incident occurred on 23rd May, 2021 along the East-West Road in Ikot Abasi Local Government Area.
The presiding justice convicted him of murder, armed robbery, and unlawful possession of fi****ms.
The soldier, Corporal Stephen Iweh, seen in the photos attached kpaid a man who gave him a lift in his car from Port Harcourt enroute Akwa Ibom state.
The victim, a 42-year-old man, Christopher Enobong Jimmy, a Manager of a Clearing and Forwarding Company in Port Harcourt, had offered Corporal Iweh a lift in his car from Trailer Park in Onne, Rivers State, to Ikot Abasi in Akwa Ibom.
Along the way, at Oboro Junction in Ikot Abasi, the 39 year-old soldier shot him dead before fleeing with the vehicle, a Grey Toyota Matrix car and valuables.
Investigations revealed that Corporal Iweh, a father of three children, had illegally kept the AK-47 rifle which he said he “picked at Dambou, Borno State in 2018 and decided to keep it as personal arms”.
He was later traced to Andy Guest House in Ukanafun, many kilometers from the scene of crime, where he was arrested and the rifle recovered.
Justice Nkanang of Uyo High Court has just convicted him on a three-count charge. He was sentenced to death by hanging for murder, death by hanging for armed robbery, and 10 years imprisonment for unlawful possession of fi****ms.
The late Christopher Jimmy is survived by his 34-year-old widow, Arit, who tearfully recounted that her husband had left Port Harcourt to visit his sister and family in Ikot Abasi, but did not return home.
Be very careful.
