It should be recalled that Craftsman Kalu Bernard allegedly shot his girlfriend and colleague, Solape Oladipupo,March 2017 after catching her red handed cheating on him.
21-year-old Benard was said to have caught Solape locked into the arms of an unidentified man at the air-force base, this threw him into a jealous rage and the trigger hungry craftsman shot his girlfriend multiple times.
Benard continued, to shot the the unidentified man but was overpowered and later taken into custody.
A 10-man Nigeria Air Force (NAF) General Court Martial, has tried Mr Kalu and found him guilty, sentencing him to death by hanging.
Flight Lieutenant. M. A. Umoh, Judge Advocate of the court, in a 70-paged narration of the case that lasted through the early hours of Wednesday, listed the eight-count charges as murder, failure to perform military duty, housebreaking , impersonation, loss of service property, disobedience of service order and prejudice to service discipline.
Benard pleaded not guilty to all charges brought against him.
However in a judgement delivered by the president of the court, Group Captain Elisha Bindul, he said that the accused was found guilty in six, out of the eight-count charges preferred against him, thereby sentencing him to death by hanging.
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