Ruya Auta, the Nigerian police officer who shot and kïllêd 20-year-old Rinji Bala on May 13, 2020, has been sentenced to dêâth by hãnging or lêthal ïnjection.
The sentence was delivered at a High Court in Jos, Plateau State, in North Central Nigeria, on Monday, Dec. 8.
Ruya was attached to Operation Safe Haven (now known as ‘Operation Ensuring Peace’), a Nigerian military joint task force established to quell violence in Plateau and neighbouring states.
“It has been five years of efforts and tenacity to bring justice to the deceased, the family, and even the government,” Garba Pwul, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria who represented the Plateau State Government in the extrajudicial kïlling case against Ruya, said afterwards. “It is a capital offence, so we had to follow the case carefully. Today, we have seen justice served.”