By Bartholomew Madukwe & Jane Echewodo

An Ikeja High Court, yesterday, sentenced two persons to 31 years imprisonment after finding them guilty of conspiracy to commit robbery and kidnapping of a mariner, Omosebi Oluwafemi.

The convicts are Sunday Akala, 35, and Monsuru Odutan, 38, while Tunde Fayomi, 32, who was 2nd defendant, died in the course of trial.

Akala, a Master degree holder, was said to have arranged with Odutan and others to kidnap his friend, Oluwafemi, because he was in need of money to pay his house rent and his friend was not willing to assist him.

The duo were arraigned by Lagos State government on a three-count charge of conspiracy to commit armed robbery and kidnapping, for which they pleaded not guilty.

Presiding judge, Justice Lateefa Okunnu, held that “the sentences are to run concurrently.”