ThankGod Ebohs, the prisoner whose execution was delayed on Monday has said
that his only regret was his inability to see the three children delivered to
him by three different women.
He is to die by firing squad but his execution was delayed because Robbery
and Firearms Tribunal was abolished in Edo State in1999.
ThankGod spoke to reporters in 2010 inside the Benin Prisons when he joined
other inmates to enroll in an educational facility provided for the inmates by
Patrick Eholor.
Four convicted inmates, Chima Ejiofor, Daniel Nsofor, Osarenmwinda Aiguokhan
and Richard Igagu were executed on Monday by officials of the Nigeria Prison
Services after a High Court ruling against their appeal.
Edo State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Henry Idahagbon,
said ThankGod was convicted in Kaduna by a Robbery and Firearm Tribunal for
robbery, rape and murder.
Idahagbon told journalists that ThankGod robbed a family, raped the wife of
the family head and forced a bottle into the vagina of the woman which led to
her death.
Ejiofor killed a child delivered to him by a Bini woman out of wedlock.
He said, “Chima was a spareparts dealer in Benin. He impregnated an Edo
woman and had a child. Several years later he went back to his village and
married an Ibo woman. During Christmas, he invited the child to spend the
holiday with him. When the child came, he killed him saying he does not want to
have a child outside wedlock.”
Source: The Nation
