Justice Daniel Longji, handed down the sentence as he found Banchir guilty of killing his biological mother.
Delivering the judgment, Longji said:
“Going by the findings of this court, you Godwin Banchir, mercilessly took the life of your mother, Mrs Saratu Banchir, in cold blood.
This sentence is mandatory, as the law states that any person convicted of murder shall be punished with death by hanging.
The sentence of this court upon you is that you, Godwin Banchir, will be hanged until you are dead, may God have mercy on your soul,’’ he said.
It was gathered that the convict was first arraigned on June 6, 2016, charged with culpable homicide, contrary to Section 221 of the Penal Code punishable with death upon conviction.
The convict was said to have committed the crime on Jan. 21, 2016, when he used a stick to beat his mother to death.
Banchir in his confessional statement said that he returned from the farm on the said date and found his mother sitting in the compound and when he greeted her, she ignored him.
In his words: “I got angry when she did not respond to my greetings, so I picked the stick of an axe and hit her around her ribs.
She fell down and started shouting, which attracted our neighbours who came to beat me up and later took me to the police station.
“I have been having misunderstandings with my mother each time I return from the farm, she doesn’t cook for me on time, and she always quarrels with me whenever I want to bathe with the water she fetched from the stream.
Her actions always annoyed me, I did not know that she was going to die from the beating she received from me.”
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This sentence is mandatory, as the law states that any person convicted of murder shall be punished with death by hanging.
The sentence of this court upon you is that you, Godwin Banchir, will be hanged until you are dead, may God have mercy on your soul,’’ he said.
It was gathered that the convict was first arraigned on June 6, 2016, charged with culpable homicide, contrary to Section 221 of the Penal Code punishable with death upon conviction.
The convict was said to have committed the crime on Jan. 21, 2016, when he used a stick to beat his mother to death.
Banchir in his confessional statement said that he returned from the farm on the said date and found his mother sitting in the compound and when he greeted her, she ignored him.
In his words: “I got angry when she did not respond to my greetings, so I picked the stick of an axe and hit her around her ribs.
She fell down and started shouting, which attracted our neighbours who came to beat me up and later took me to the police station.
“I have been having misunderstandings with my mother each time I return from the farm, she doesn’t cook for me on time, and she always quarrels with me whenever I want to bathe with the water she fetched from the stream.
Her actions always annoyed me, I did not know that she was going to die from the beating she received from me.”
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*Imagine what his excuses were?Why didnt he marry a woman to cook and bath him if that was what he wanted?Imagine killing a woman that birthed you?Tufiakwa!!!
Rest in hell.
ReplyDeleteThank God they have removed this one for society before he kills someone innocent daughter in the name of marriage.
DeleteI’ve always said that men don’t need a reason to beat women. People will say that women provoke men with their mouths. The thing is even when you’re silent and don’t say anything even the silence will upset them and they start beating the woman because she didn’t talk and say anything.
DeleteSee excuse
ReplyDeleteSo sad
Stella, it’s better he didn’t marry o. Or else he would have killed an innocent girl instead of his mother and naija peeps as usual would have blamed the wife for being a bad wife. Look at the list of chores he expects his own mother to do for him. Nigerian parents need to do better in training the boy child. He’s already do entitled in dealing with his mother, imagine what demands he would have had concerning a wife. He simply sees women as slaves, even his own mother! This is an extremity but there’s an element of this in most Nigerian men. The difference is that they only lash out at their wives and girlfriends in the guise of “culture” or “ being respected as men” instead of their mothers. Either way, wrong is wrong. Nobody is your slave. Slavery was abolished eons ago.
DeleteI often wonder the kind of orientation some of this northern people have to act the way they do most times. So horrible and inhumane.
ReplyDeleteyou are very very stupid teejay or whatever u are called. tribalism has eaten deep into your brain. evey tribe has bad and good people. but if na to scam people u go get brain
DeleteHow can one beat his own mother?? *shudders*
ReplyDeleteMay we never birth such. Amen!
Evil child! May God never gift anyone with this one.
ReplyDeleteOmo pao bi ibon. God forbid this kind of child. Amen
ReplyDeleteOmo ale jatijati.. May you rot in hell. Can you imagine 'she quarrels with me whenever I want to use the water she fetches from the stream' Is it your mother's duty to fetch water for you..?
ReplyDeleteOmo Abi pabe........ See all what he said
ReplyDeleteYou are doom for life.
Rip to the mother.. His soul should rest in hell
ReplyDeleteWicked child from the pit of hell.
ReplyDeleteSee the He-goat so is her mother's duty to cook for he.. A young man like him cannot cook and fetch water before going to the farm..am happy the way is being hang to death...idait...
ReplyDeleteIt was a good job he did not marry. Such a man should not be inflicted on other women. He is a lazy good for nothing. Can he not fetch his own water?? Must she even cook for him? Plus what is he still doing at home at his age. May this scumbag rot in hell!!
ReplyDeleteEkwensu in human form. You had the guts to beat your own mother to death. Chai! You deserve a more painful death. Idiot!
ReplyDeleteThis looks like manslaughter and not murder. There's no evidence he intended to kill her. Death is too much. He should appeal.
ReplyDeleteNo it is not too much, he deserves to die.
DeleteThank you. It is too much.
DeleteHe should appeal
The devil is waiting for him in hell.
ReplyDeleteDevilish human....u deserved the punishment.
ReplyDeleteStories like this is why I believe that the male child should leave home as soon as possible and go make his own way in the world.
ReplyDeleteThat was a bad seed.
Shebi when dem born this one them do naming ceremony not knowing his the one that will send her to grave.
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