Two remanded in prison for alleged killing in Ondo
Two suspects, allegedly all for the lynching of 25-year-worn driver, Tope Olorunfemi, in Ondo Command, were remanded in a correctional facility.
The suspects, Victor Amos, 30, and Pelumi Farotimi, 42, had been remanded within the Olokuta Correctional Centre by a Magistrate Court docket sitting in Akure, Ondo Command capital, after they had been accused of being all for the dying of the deceased who modified into once alleged of being an cyber web fraudster, popularly identified as Yahoo boy.
DAILY POST remembers that the deceased modified into once killed on Easter Monday by an offended mob after his automobile ran over some facet road customers on Ijoka Avenue.
The suspects and others at colossal had been accused of committing the offence on April 10, 2023, at 9 pm after they beat, stoned and lynched the sufferer, in accordance to the fee.
Sections 324, 316(1), and 451(6)(J) of the Prison Code, Cap. 37, Vol. 2, Authorized guidelines of Ondo Command, had been violated, in accordance to the police.
Nonetheless, bail modified into once granted to a pair of the defendants who had been arraigned earlier than a Chief Magistrate Court docket in Akure.
Boboye Ismaila, Samuel Olatunji, and Nurudeen Kumuteyi got bail within the quantity of N500,000 with two sureties within the same quantity.
The sureties had been required to catch landed property that is field to the jurisdiction of the court, in accordance to Magistrate Musa Al-Yunus.
The accused had been charged with three counts of legal, assassinate and arson.
The prosecutor, Nelson Akintimehin, revealed at some stage within the presentation of a medical narrative earlier than the court that the deceased’s dying modified into once precipitated by a severe head injury sustained at some stage within the mob attack.
Akintimehin requested the court to fail to bear in mind the defence attorneys’ counter affidavits.
The magistrate talked about in his ruling that there were probable grounds to remand the 2 suspects, who had been the first and third defendants.
The case modified into once adjourned to August 8, 2023.
