The judgment, which started at 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday, dragged till 4:00 p.m. when it was stood down before the panelists reconvened at 7:30 p.m.
Reading out the 70-page court findings, which lasted about two hours, the Judge Advocate, Flight Lt. M.A. Umoh, listed the eight-count charge against 21-year-old Kalu to include murder, house breaking, impersonation and attempted murder, among others.
The defence counsel, Abimiku Ewuga, urged the court to temper justice with mercy, saying the accused was his family breadwinner.
The president of the court, Gp. Capt. Elisha Bindul, who found the accused guilty in six out of the eight charges, sentenced him to death by hanging, subject to confirmation of the conveying authority.
Ewuga later told journalists that he would appeal the judgement.
Kalu had on March 12 killed Oladipupo at her Corporal and Below Quarters, Compound 9, Air Force Base, Makurdi, on the suspicion that she was dating another man.
He broke into Oladipupo’s home before shooting her at close range.
(The Nation)
