PHOTOS: Six years after crime, killers of NNPC employee, Sylvester Emefiele, bag life jail

About six years of what the court described as “full blown trial,” two commercial taxi drivers, Taiwo Akinlade and Timothy Abidemi Lekan, have been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of an employee of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Transformation Office, Sylvester Emefiele.

The victim was killed after his abduction on the night of September 23, 2012.

However, Justice O.A. Musa of the Federal Capital Territory High Court in Bwari area of Abuja discharged and acquitted three conspirators — Saidi Baba Tunde, Banjo Olaniyi and Saliu Afeez.

While two of the persons discharged were arraigned for buying the properties belonging to the deceased, the third accused person reportedly prepared the charm which was used to hit Emefiele and made him unconscious for weeks.

The accused persons were said to have confessed during interrogations by security operatives.

Justice Musa ordered that the accused persons be made to spend the rest of their lives in Kuje Prison in Abuja.

Timothy Abidemi Lekan and Taiwo Akinlade, the convicted abductors/murderers of late NNPC employee, Sylvester Emefiele, leading investigators to the crime scene