Constable to die by hanging

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The Supreme Court, on Friday sentenced a trigger-happy police constable, Emmanuel Ochiba, to death by hanging.
The convict was arraigned before a Jos High Court, which sentenced him on November 9, 2005 for killing Godwin Momoh, in Jos on September 12, 2001.
The Court of Appeal, Jos, dismissed the appeal on June 29, 2010 and upheld the judgment of the trial court.
Before his murder on Tafawa Balewa Street adjoining Langtang Street Jos, the deceased and his friends were returning to their homes between 12 noon and 1pm. 
They were stopped by some policemen. 
They raised their hands up and obeyed the instructions before the trigger-happy constable was seen coming out from a shop with a bottle of hot drink. 
He collected a gun from one of his colleagues and shot the deceased in the chest. Momoh died instantly.
In a unanimous decision, the apex court affirmed the death sentence after dismissing the appeal for lack of merit.