Love Affair: Air Craftman, Bernard Kalu, To Die By Hanging

Hamilton Nwosa
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The 10-man General Court Martial of the Nigerian Air Force has sentenced Air Craftman Benard Kalu to death by hanging for the killing of his colleague, Corporal Oladipupo, alleged to be his girlfriend.

Kalu had on March 12 this year shot and killed Oladipupo at her Corporal and Below Quarters, Compound 9, Air Force Base, Makurdi on the allegation that she was having an affair with another man.

Kalu, 21, was said to have, after breaking into Oladipupo’s home in the early hours of the fateful Sunday, shot her on the neck at close range, and also attempted to kill the other man whom he had suspected she was having an affair with.

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