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  • Court Orders Remand of 9 OAU Students For Allegedly Beating Final Year Student To Death

    Court Orders Remand of 9 OAU Students For Allegedly Beating Final Year Student To Death

    A magistrate court sitting in Ile-Ife, Osun State has ordered the remand of nine students of Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, in Correctional over alleged murder of a final year student of Okoli Ahize.

    The deceased was accused of stealing a mobile phone in Awolowo hall of residence on campus.

    According to Daily Gist, the Police prosecutor, Asp Emmanuel Abdullahi, told the court that the defendants committed the offence on April 10 around 8:00 pm at the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife.

    He gave the names of the suspects as Badiora Timilehin, 22; Adegoke Francis, 23; Atilade Adeniyi, 22; Adeyeni Ajibola, 22; Olayiwola Adewumi, 21; Adisa Olamilekan, 24; Igbinyemi Amos, 22; Osode Joshua, 23 and Philip Kayode, 24.

    The prosecutor said the defendants conspired among themselves to commit the offence which contravened Sections 319 and 324 of the Criminal Code, Laws of Osun, 2002.

    He told the court that the defendants and others now at large unlawfully beat one Okoli Ahize to death with sticks, stones, and iron rods.

    The plea of the defendants were not taken on a two-count charge of conspiracy and murder, though Messrs Olamide Oladunni and A.R. Abdullateef announced their appearances for the suspects.

    The Magistrate, Kike Adebayo, asked the prosecutor to duplicate their case files to the office of the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) for legal advice.

    The case was adjourned until June 9, for mention

  • Father of Late Dowen College Pupil Accuses Lagos Government, Police of Conspiracy

    Father of Late Dowen College Pupil Accuses Lagos Government, Police of Conspiracy

    Father of late Dowen college student, Sylvester Oromoni Jnr., has accused Lagos State Government and the Nigeria Police Force for allegedly conspiring to cover up the circumstances surrounding his son’s death.

    Oromoni Snr. expresses his displeasure in a statement released to newsmen on Wednesday which served as rejoinder to the legal advice issued by the Lagos State Department of Public Prosecution, DPP on Tuesday.

    The management of Dowen College had stated that the late Oromoni Jnr had sustained injuries from playing football.

    However, Oromoni Snr stated that the evidence from the autopsy has contradicted the school’s claims.

    He said, “The management of Dowen College, Lekki Lagos has always claimed that my late son sustained the injury while playing football.

    All evidence gathered so far has shown that this is not the true story but a way to cover up their negligence.

    “Based on the outcome of the autopsy report which contradicts the story of Dowen college, it is my firm belief that there is a conspiracy among the officials of Lagos State Government and the Nigeria Police Force, Lagos State Command to cover up the circumstances surrounding the gruesome death of my son, Late Sylvester Oromoni Jnr.”

    He added that it was shameful for the Lagos State Government and the Nigeria Police, Lagos State Command to exonerate the five Dowen College students and staff despite his son’s final testimony.

    “It is my belief and a shame on the Lagos State Government to have allowed this kind of gang up against an innocent boy who died as a result of negligence from the management of Dowen College, Lekki, Lagos.

    “There is a clear oral statement from my son before he died and his schoolmates that he was tortured and given an unknown substance suspected to be POISON which led to his death.

    “It is disheartening that in the DPP advice, the State of Lagos claims that the five suspects have no case to answer,” Oromoni stated.

  • Video: How My Leg Got Amputated After Sustaining Gun Shot Wound at Lekki Toll Gate, Victim

    One of the victims of #LekkiShootings who sustained gun shot Injuries has shared the story of how his leg got amputated after he allegedly suffered a gunshot wound at the Lekki tollgate on Tuesday, October 20.

    In an interview with Punch, Lekan, a cobbler waiting for his graduation from where he serves as an apprentice, said he joined other protesters at the tollgate on that fateful day to press home their demands which amongst many was the end to police brutality.

    ”On Tuesday October 20, I went to the Lekki protest. Before 7pm, the soldiers came and started shooting. We were told to raise our flags that we shouldn’t move, that we should sit down.

    However, the sound of the gunshot was too much. That was when I got up and started running because the gunshot sound was too much. Before I knew it, a bullet hit my leg. I fell. I couldn’t get up again.

    Someone had to come and rescue me. The scene was rowdy and noisy, I couldn’t do anything, I was tired.”

    His distraught mother, Temidayo Faleye, who is a washerwoman and also sells cooked noodles, said she was woken up at about after 12 midnight on that day by a phone call informing her that her son had sustained a gunshot wound at the Lekki tollgate. She said after going to different hospitals, it was at the Igbobi Orthopedic Hospital that she was informed that the only remedy for her son was for his leg to be amputated.

    Mrs. Faleye appealed to Brigadier General Ahmed Ibrahim Taiwo of the 81 Division Nigeria Army of the Nigerian Army to speak the “truth” and stop making the claims that the Army didn’t fire live ammunition at the protesters.

    ”Soldiers you are the ones who shot. The people you shot at are not babies. I beg Nigerians in the name of God, help me. Major General Taiwo, you will not weep over your children. Expose all the soldiers responsible for the Lekki shooting. Expose them. My son was a victim of their actions. Expose them, I beg you in the name of God”she said