Two persons were yesterday ordered by a Magistrates’ Court to be remanded in prison custody for allegedly killing a student of the Osun State University, Rofiat Damilola Adebisi.
Elijah Oyebode (22) and Yusuf Ajibade (25) will remain at Ilesa prison.
Oyebode, a commercial bus driver, confessed that he hypnotised the deceased, who boarded his vehicle from Ipetu Ijesa to Osogbo.
Oyebode said he delivered her to a herbalist, Aafa Jelili, who paid him N10,000.
He confessed that the herbalist gave him a charm and told him to bring any young lady who has not given birth.
It was further gathered that the second accused person, Yusuf Oyebode, allegedly received an Iphone 5 valued at N100,000 recovered from the deceased.
Police prosecutor Mireti Wilson said the accused and others now at large committed the alleged offence on December 23 at Egbeda in Iragbiji, Osun State.
The Magistrate, Olusola Aluko, adjourned the case till March 30.
Tag: Murder
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Two remanded for murder
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Ekiti APC uncovers plot to stop murder cases
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State has raised the alarm on alleged plots to stop the murder cases against suspects accused of complicity in the killing of former World Bank consultant Ayodeji Daramola and Tunde Omojola during the first term of Governor Ayo Fayose.
The party said it was monitoring all activities by the governor and other individuals to manipulate the cases and exonerate the suspects.
Omojola, based in the Netherlands, was murdered on May 28, 2005 during a councillorship by-election in Ifaki-Ekiti, where he served as an agent of the National Conscience Party (NCP).
Daramola was assassinated at his home in Ijan-Ekiti on August 14, 2006, shortly after receiving the blessing of former President Olusegun Obasanjo to run for governor on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2007 general elections.
The AP,C in a statement yesterday by its Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatunbosun, said: “We understand that Daramola ‘s and Omojola’s cases are being pushed for retrial to get them dismissed .
“This was started in an lleged secret trial late last year before the plot leaked, but this was after the court first struck out the case for ‘lack of diligent prosecution’ in a secret trial that the families of the victims were kept in the dark.
“It was after the cases were struck out that they realised that what they needed was outright dismissal to bury the case permanently, but the matter leaked at the point of relisting the cases for fresh hearings, and since then, there was no information on it again.
“But now, another plot is afoot to manipulate the court for the outright dismissal of the cases and the man pushing for dismissal through manipulation of the courts is the prime suspect in the two cases.”
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Murder of 77yr old community leader sparks outrage in Delta
Shock and outrage ripped through Ugborodo and other Itsekiricommunities in Warri, Delta State on Tuesday over the murder of a77-year-old leader of the community, Chief Sandys Omadeli-Uvoh.
Uvoh was reportedly murdered in his house at Bakpa estatearea of Effurun, Uvwie local government area of the state, in the early hours of Tuesday by yet unknown gunmen.
Sources within the Itsekiri community told our reporter that the septuagenarian was ostensibly murdered because of his irrepressible position on the leadership crisis rocking the community.
“They killed him, probably by suffocation, and attempted to make it look like a robbery operation. There is no doubt that his murderers had one thing in mind to silence him,” a source close to the late Uvoh told our reporter on telephone.
It would be recalled that the oil-rich Itsekiri community,perhaps one of the richest in the country, had been embroiled in leadership tussle over control of the community’s affairs and by extension multibillion naira patronage and royalties. -
Court remands man for murder
An Ado-Ekiti Magistrates’ Court yesterday remanded a man, Busuyi Falayi, in prison custody for alleged murder.
Police prosecutor Sgt Monica Ikebuilo told the court the accused committed the offence on March 30, 2013, at Aramoko-Ekiti in Ekiti West Local Government.
She alleged that the accused murdered Ayo Jeje and Julianah Adewumi.
According to her, the offence contravened Section 319 of the Criminal Code, Cap C 16, Laws of Ekiti State 2012.
Ikebuilo explained she had sent the case file to the Office of the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) for legal advice.
The plea of the accused was not taken as his counsel, Mr Simeon Ojo prayed for a short adjournment till the advice from the DPP.
The Magistrate, Modupe Afeniforo, remanded the accused in prison custody pending advice from the DPP.
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Wrongly executed man acquitted by court
Nie Shubin, who was executed 21 years ago for rape and murder, had his conviction overturned by China’s top court on Friday.
The second circuit court under the Supreme People’s Court revoked the verdict.
Nie was convicted of raping and murdering a woman in Hebei provincial capital, Shijiazhuang in 1995 and executed the same year at the age of 21.
The case re-emerged in 2005 when another man, Wang Shujin, admitted guilt in the case and said Nie was innocent.
In December 2014, the SPC assigned the higher court of Shandong Province to review the case and the latter found there were too many questions about the previous trials to uphold the conviction.
However, the SPC decided to retry the case in June 2016.
The retrial panel of the second SPC circuit court reviewed all documents on the case, visited the crime scene, verified evidence and questioned former personnel who had handled the case.
It also heard opinions from the Supreme People’s Procuratorate, which insisted that the evidence presented in the original trial was insufficient.
The SPC finally announced Nie was innocent on Friday.
It ruled that the evidence was lacking, the time of the crime and tools used to commit the crime could not be confirmed and the victim’s time and cause of death could not be confirmed.
It noted several key documents, including some records of the questioning of Nie and witnesses had been lost and the truth and legitimacy of Nie’s confession were questionable.
“The evidence used to convict Nie was not accurate and sufficient and did not meet the requirements for a conviction,’’ it said. (Xinhua/NAN)
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Aluminum fabricator to die for murder
An Ikeja High Court yesterday sentenced to death by hanging a 24-year-old aluminium fabricator, Onyeka Patrick, for the gruesome murder of an eight year old boy, AyubaErikitola.
Justice OluwatoyinIpaye held that the prosecution had proven its case against the convict beyond reasonable doubt.
“I find the defendant guilty as charged. You are hereby sentenced to death by hanging until you stop breathing. May God have mercy on your soul”, the judge said.
The convict, who hails fromAnambra State, committed the offence on January 12, 2013 at Plot 14, 3rd Avenue, Mulmaco Estate, Lagos.
Prosecuting state counsel Akin George told the court that Patrick strangled the boy, thereby committing an offence contrary to Section 221 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State 2011.
George said Patrick confessed to the boy’s parents and the police how he committed the act.
According to the prosecution, Patrick, who lived in the same neighbourhood with the deceased, had on a Saturday morning, lured the boy to his backyard in a bid to kidnap him for ransom.
On, realising that the boy would identify him and tell his father who abducted him when released, Patrick killed his victim to cover up his track.
The prosecution said the convict strangled the boy and buried him secretly to avoid being caught.
He was said to have wrapped the boy’s body in a sack and buried it in an empty septic tank inside an uncompleted building within the estate and demanded N5 million ransom from the deceased’s father.
After strangling the boy, Patrick confessed to writing a ransom note in which he included his phone number and delivered it discreetly at the deceased’s father’s residence. -
Two brothers, son of traditional ruler to die by hanging for murder
Two brothers, Shola and Kayode Oni and one other person, are to die by hanging for the murder of one Suleiman Afolabi during a fight on Christmas day in 2012.
Also to be hanged to death alongside the two siblings is Ibrahim Omilade, the son of a traditional ruler in Mafoluku, Oshodi, Lagos State, Chief Bashiru Omilade.
The incident happened at Eyin Ogun Street, Mafoluku, Oshodi, in Lagos State when Suleiman received several machete cut which led to his death.
The accused person were found guilty for the death of the deceased by Justice Kudirat Jose of a Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja.
Justice Jose found the condemned persons guilty of the charges conspiracy and murder preferred against them by the prosecution team, Mr. Babatunde Oguntemowo and Mr. Olarewaju Ajanaku.
Justice Jose said in her judgment, “I pronounce the defendants guilty as charged in respect of the offence of murder and conspiracy and are hereby sentenced to death by hanging by the neck until their death.”
The trial judge however cautioned youths to learn from the ordeal that befell the convicts emphasizing that young ones should be careful of going about to attack people to settle scores.
Trouble began for the convicts when four years ago they were invited by a neighbor to celebrate the Christmas with him.
They said they were in the apartment of their host when a young boy came in and informed them that a brother to the deceased, Akeem Afolabi, had threatened to deal with them.
During trial, the convicts had told the court that they went to inquire the reason for the threat but that while discussing, Akeem ordered them to get away.
They claimed in their defence that Akeem had gone inside the house to get a machete with which he tried to attack one of them but that the attack was blocked by another person whose hand was injured in the process.
The convicts claimed that it was while they were trying to dodge Akeem who was wielding a machete and coming after them that the deceased received machete cuts in the waist region.
They said they got to know some days later that a doctor had pronounced the deceased dead.
But the trial judge faulted their testimony pointing out that it sounded rehearsed and polished.
The judge said she found the evidence presented by the prosecution witnesses led by their counsels, Messrs. Oguntemowo and Ajanaku more credible.
She subsequently jailed the convicts 12 years for the offence of conspiracy, starting from the day of arrest, and death by hanging for the offence of murder.
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Outrage over man murdered at Oshodi market
The buildings and environs of the Methodist Church Nigeria Plaza, Oshodi, opposite the demolished Owonifari market were at a standstill Friday when a young man was clobbered to death.
The victim, the late Cheta Ewi, 24, sold and repaired games and downloads prior to his death.
He was said to be the only son and had no family in Lagos.
The plaza, home to wholesale traders in clothing items, looked more like a ghost town than a beehive of activity which is the usual atmosphere of shops in the ever bustling Oshodi market.
When some traders attempted to open their shops to sell their wares, they were prevented from doing so by angry mob purportedly protesting the murder of their colleague in cold blood.
An eyewitness who preferred to remain anonymous alleged that the victim, Cheta by name, had gone to a party the night before, had a lot of alcohol to drink and a lot of Indian Hemp to smoke, and by 6am the next morning came to his shop and started harassing and physically abusing his colleagues.
In an attempt to control him, the eyewitness, a saleswoman, alleged that the traders chained and beat him to stupor.
She recounted: “Cheta is known to be a habitual Indian hemp smoker by everyone, but never has he reacted like this before. Early, this morning he started exhibiting lunatic tendencies and had bitten four people, including two women. He was coming towards me, and would have bitten me as well but for the man who stopped him. While trying to control him, he was chained and some people started beating him, until he collapsed. We later heard that he had died.”
However, another eyewitness, Mr. Okechukwu, a trader who has a shop in the plaza agreed that the late Cheta had never exhibited lunatic tendencies prior to that day, saying, “No, we cannot understand. The world does not believe in spiritual things, but it could be caused by what he ate or drank.”
Responding to the allegation that Cheta was a drug addict whose demented state could have been caused by a chemical interaction between Indian hemp and alcohol which could have led to a mental breakdown, Okechukwu responded, “No I have never seen him smoke.”
He recalled that when he got to his shop, at about 8.30 am, he met that his friend and brother, Cheta, had been beaten to death between six and seven that morning. “But when we got here this morning, we were told that when Cheta was biting people. Two members of the task force, known popularly as Alabi and Arinze, got some boys to tame him. They then went up and took a stool from the shop of Abada, one of our traders, and started hitting him on the head and all over his body. They chained him, and seated him in the sun after beating him, and released him when they saw that he was about to die,” Okechukwu said.
He said Cheta was later rushed by his colleagues to Longlife hospital where he was rejected. They then rushed him to the General hospital, where he gave up the ghost. They paid for the arrangement of his body which had been brutally battered in the cause of the ordeal.
“His head had also been broken, with scars all over his face. His close friends and customers brought his corpse to his plaza, and ordered everyone to close.”
The plaza has since closed.
According to Okechukwu, this is the usual practice when a person passes on.
But, when The Nation visited the place later in the day it was learnt that a riot had ensued due to some people’s refusal to close their shops for the day.
The traders were, however, forced to shut their shops when the riot happened.
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Two herdsmen held for murder
The police in Ogun State have arrested two Fulani herdsmen for the alleged murder of their kinsman at Itadodo in Ofada, Obafemi Owode Local Government.
Abdulahi Anaruwa and Mohammed Suleiman were said to have killed Garuba Mohammed to steal his cattle.
The suspects were said to have met the deceased on October 28, while he was grazing his cattle and lured him to a bush, where he was slaughtered.
But unknown to the duo, a commercial motorcyclist saw them and alerted community members, who informed the police.
A team, led by the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Owode Egba, Sheu Alao, was said to have caught the suspects.
The command’s spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said his boss, Ahmed Iliyasu, ordered that the case be transferred to the homicide section of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID), Eleweran.
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Bello urges calm after Fulani leader’s murder
•We’re investigating, says police
Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello has condemned the murder of the leader of the Miyetti-Allah Cattle Breeders Association in the state, Ibrahim Abubakar Jalindo.
Jalindo, who was killed in his Lokoja residence on Saturday, was a two-term secretary of Miyetti-Allah.
Bello, in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary Petra Akinti Onyegbule, said the government was working with security agencies to unravel Jalindo’s death.
He appealed for calm.
The statement reads: “I received with sadness, news of the death of Alhaji Ibrahim Abubakar Jalindo today. On behalf of the people, I express my condolences to the Miyetti-Allah Association.
“As painful as this must be, I enjoin all to be calm as the government is working with security agencies to fish out the perpetrators as soon as possible. They will also be made to face the consequences of their actions.
“May Allah grant Alhaji Ibrahim Abubakar Al-Jannah Firdaus.”
The police said they were investigating Jalindo’s death, spokesman William Aya has said.
Jalindo’s predecessor Shaibu was killed by kidnappers about four months ago. His family paid N5 million for his release.
But his body was later found by his family.