PHOTO: Convict Bill Friday Ziah
By Garmah Never Lomo, garmahlomo@gmail.com
The second Judicial Circuit Court in Buchanan City, Grand Bassa County has sentenced a man, Friday Bill Ziah to sixty years imprisonment for killing the 2-year-old daughter of a church Pastor Yakpazuah Pewee in Rivercess County.
Presiding Judge Zuballah Kiziku handed down the sentenced on Monday, April 4,2022.
Earlier on March 8, 2022, Ziah was unanimously found guilty by the trial jurors, after his initial guilty plea.
Pre-sentence investigation done by the probation office at the Ministry of Justice disclosed that convict Ziah is a third grade dropout and a driver, who migrated from Nimba County to Monrovia then Rivercess County while serving as car conductor.
It was discovered by probation office that convict Ziah has no prior criminal record and no history of mental health disorder.
The probation office therefore, recommended to the court that when imposing sentence, the judge should take into consideration his regret during his actions and the effect of the probation services in which it leaves the judge with sentencing option.
For his part, the victim’s father, Pastor Yakpazuah Pewee said he has since forgiven convict Ziah.
Pastor Pewee told www.newspublictrust.com the gruesome act of murder committed by Ziah against his little daughter wasn’t normal but rather demonic.
“Whether or not Bill Ziah could be sentence to life or how many years given him, it can’t still bring back his daughter to life Pastor Pewee added,” Pastor Yakpazuah said.
The Christian cleric believes that wherever his daughter’s soul is, she is happy that she has gotten justice.
He encouraged convict Ziah to preach the gospel to others while serving his sentence in prison.
Pastor Pewee lauded the Ministry of Justice for their efforts in serving justice to his deceased two years old daughter.
Background
The 25-year-old convict, Bill Friday Ziah, who murdered tha Pastor’s daughter in the ITI community in Rivercess County, has blamed his gruesome killing on a demon possession during an exclusive interview with him on March 8,2022 at the Second Judicial Circuit Court in Buchanan City, Grand Bassa County after the Jurors hand down unanimous guilty verdict against him.
The defendant initially pleaded guilty when the case was called on March 2,2022 but state prosecutors set aside his guilty plea and order the case to continue.
convict Ziah after trial jurors handed down a unanimous guilty verdict against him, said he was unhappy due to manner in which he gruesomely murdered his pastor two years old daughter whom he used to take care of and even take her to service.
“I regretting because of the way I killed the girl and I wasn’t to myself on that day.”
According to him, he doesn’t take in drug neither any substance but what came over him that day, he doesn’t know at all.
He admitted that he gave pastor Pewee L$52 thousand for keeping but he was taking it bit by bit and it remained L$17,000 which he asked Pastor Pewee for but didn’t wait for response from the pastor when he went ahead taking the victim to an unknown location and gruesomely murdered her.
“Imagine four handcuffs were placed on my hands and as you can see the mark on my hands, I cut some from my hands to tell that I wasn’t normal and neither in my right frame of mind” he narrated.
The two years old Murderer disclosed that since the incident occurred, he has never been to himself because the way he gruesomely killed the child.
He said on the day of the incident, physical look for that day was totally out of order indicating that he was asked, you want eat no, you want money no which suggests that he was he been controlled by demon or some other spirit.
Defendant Ziah spent seven months with pastor Yarkpazuah Pewee of the Amazing Fire Ministry church in Rivercess County.
During the final argument today March 8, 2022,Grand Bassa County attorney Randolph D.M.O Johnson prayed court to give maximum sentence to defendant Ziah to serve as a deterrence for people who intentionally take others people lives away.
Attorney Johnson argued that convict Ziah was in his right frame of mind when he committed the act and his guilty plea shouldn’t be used to give him minimum sentence and if the Judge do so, they will file motion to rescind his judgement.
Further information gathered is convict Ziah is he hailed from Nimba County but went to Rivercess County for greener pastures and since his appearance in Rivercess County, convict Ziah was taken in by pastor Pewee who took him as a son to him and provided him room including feeding until he committed that gruesome murder to his daughter.
As for the defense lawyer headed by Attorney Aaron Kartee argued given the gravity or the manner in which the pastor two years old was gruesomely murdered, tells you that the convict wasn’t in his right frame of mind but rather he was driven by a demon spirit.
The Grand Bassa County public defender requested court to take judicial notice of the case file and take notice of the statute of guilty plead.