Jungle Justice: Police Arraign Women, Other For Killing Landlord’s Son in Lagos.

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Jungle Justice: Police Arraign Women, Other For Killing Landlord’s Son in Lagos.......

The house Inset: Olajuwape……

The Punch

Lagos
May 28, 2014

Two women, Awolere Funke (45) and Omotayo Oyekunle (31), and 33-year-old Christopher Nwosu, have been arraigned before an Ebute Meta Magistrate’s Court for allegedly killing their landlord’s son, Tolulope Olajuwape.

The police said the three tenants were part of a mob that killed Olajuwape at Fasanya Street, Mile 12 area of Lagos State.

PUNCH Metro had reported on April 21, 2014 that the deceased was lynched after he returned from Guinea Bissau where he had stayed for over 25 years and lost contact with his family members in Nigeria.

He had reportedly visited his father’s house on Fasanya Street, where he met the house in a state of disrepair. He was said to have threatened to evict some of the tenants. A tenant mistook him for a kidnapper and raised the alarm which led to his lynching.

The police prosecutor, Inspector Asu Feddy said the offence was punishable under sections 221 and 324 of the Criminal Code, Cap E17, Vol. 11, Law of Lagos State, Nigeria, 2011.

Feddy added, “We will also be applying for the remand of the three defendants in prison for the first 30 days permitted by law, pending the release of the legal advice from the Directorate of Public Prosecutions.”

The defence counsel – Spurgeon Ataene and T.D. Ajao – however, objected to the remand application. Ataene prayed the court to conduct a preliminary investigation into the matter.

The magistrate, E.O. Ogunkanmi, called the Investigating Police Officer to tell the court the outcome of police investigations.

The IPO said, “On April 10, 2014 at 3, Fasanya Street, the deceased, who had left Nigeria for the past 25 years, went to his father’s house.

“He met the defendants and threatened to evict them. They told him that they didn’t know him and they had been paying their rent to the developer.
“He left them, but as he was passing through the passageway, he met one of the defendants and was trying to find out who she was.
“Because of the way he looked – he was wearing dreadlocks – she shouted, ‘E gba mi o (Somebody rescue me)’. The people on the street got him and dragged him around four different streets and beat him to death.”

Harping on the statements of the IPO, the defence counsel told the court that the defendants had nothing to do with the offence and only acted out of fright. Ataene said, “As stated by the IPO, it was people on the street that killed him. My clients couldn’t have been part of this. They were in their homes. They ought to have been released since the police made this discovery, whereas, they have been in detention for more than a month.

“The deceased’s family has also compelled them to be part of the burial and even made them to pay heavily; they had to contribute huge sum of money. That is why they are no longer interested and are not in court.”

The defence counsel asked the court to exercise its discretion as contained in Section 264 (9) of the Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos State, Nigeria, 2011, to grant the defendants bail pending the release of the DPP’s legal advice.

The magistrate in his ruling said the court did not have the power to grant bail in a murder case, and that the issue was to be decided by the DPP.
Ogunkanmi added, “This court does not have enough personnel, but the DPP has. It is hereby ordered that the three defendants be remanded in prison pending the legal advice.”

The matter was adjourned till June 23, 2014.

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Posted: at 30-05-2014 10:09 PM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac

nigeria ON FIRE BIAFRA LOADING

Posted: at 31-05-2014 02:08 AM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac

u see wetin jungle justice don cause and go still cause in the future ? all those jobless lagos boys no dey use ear hear EGBAMI before them run come and wen them come them no dey even ask question before taking action,imidiatly them just hear EGBA before the MI join am them don land.them real talk say ni jobless man or woman wey dey stay for house 24hours dey seperate two fowl wen them dey fight        

Posted: at 31-05-2014 02:21 AM (9 years ago) | Addicted Hero

25 wetin?chai

Posted: at 31-05-2014 04:14 AM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac

Jungle justice is barbaric......

Rest in peace Bro....

Posted: at 31-05-2014 05:47 AM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac

Dis is madness. Must they always lynch pple wit interrogating them? Wat rubbish. D stupid woman, is she happy now?  Even if he had worn rag dat does not warrant those fools to lynch him to death.

Posted: at 31-05-2014 08:25 AM (9 years ago) | Addicted Hero

 

Posted: at 31-05-2014 08:37 AM (9 years ago) | Hero

what a country?

Posted: at 31-05-2014 09:21 AM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac

so bad

Posted: at 31-05-2014 09:47 AM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac

E go beta

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Posted: at 31-05-2014 10:29 AM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac