A Kwara State High court sitting in Ilorin on Monday ordered that the seven (7) suspects standing trial for the alleged murder of Mojisola Awesu, a student of the Kwara State College of Health Technology, Offa be remanded in the correctional facility.
Justice Ibrahim Yusuf gave the order following the absence of the counsel to 5th, 6th and 7th defendants in the court.
LEADERSHIP reports that counsel to the 1st and 4th defendants were not in the court on February 3, 2025 when the case was brought up for hearing.
Only the prime suspects, Adebayo Joshua Happiness and Timileyin Kolawole were remanded in correctional facility as at February 3, 2025.
The absence of the counsel to the 5th, 6th and 7th defendants in court on Monday did not go down well with Justice Yusuf who subsequently ordered that all the seven defendants be remanded in correctional facility until the March 4, 2025.
Happiness and Kolawole are the prime suspects accused of conspiring and causing the death of Awesu on August 9, 2024.
Happiness and his parents, Adebayo Adeniyi and Bukola Adeniyi were accused of conspiring and causing the disappearance and destruction of evidence on the matter, an offencse punishable under the Penal code law of Kwara State, 2006.
For their part, Adeoye Adeola, Lawal Aminat and Peter Bulus were accused of conspiring and dumping the corpse of the deceased at a dump site along Wara Road in Ilorin, which is punishable under the Kwara State Prohibition of Dealing in Human Parts Law, 2018.
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