How parents helped son to conceal murder of 21-year-old college of health graduate
Four suspects, including a final year student of Summit University, Offa, Adebayo Happiness, were arraigned on Tuesday at the Kwara State chief Magistrate Court sitting in Ilorin over alleged murder of a 21-year-old graduate of Kwara State College of Health Technology, Offa, Awesu Mojisola.
Neptune Prime reports that the deceased, Mojisola, was found dead at Whitefield Hotel in Ilorin, Kwara State.
According to the report, on August 10, 2024, Adebayo Joshua Happiness deceived the victim to attend a botched post graduation party in Ilorin for the sum of N15,000.
Charged along with Happiness were his parents, Adebayo Adeniyi (51) and Bukola Adeniyi (49) as well as an accomplice, 24-year-old Timileyin Kolawole.
On 30 August, almost three weeks after the murder took place, security agents arrested seven suspects in connection to the crime.
However, four were charged before the court for alleged criminal conspiracy, culpable homicide, theft, impersonation, and causing disappearance of evidence contrary to sections 97, 221, 287, 179 and 167 of the Penal Code Law and computer related frauds contrary to sections 14(2) (3), 22 (2) (3) of Cybercrime Prevention and Prohibition Law 2015.
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The prosecution, led by ASP Isaac Yakub told the court that on August 14, 2024, one Blessing Ogungbenro reported at Offa Police station that her room mate, Awesu Mojisola, a graduate of Kwara State College of Health Technology, Offa, was missing since Friday, August 9, 2024.
She said her friend received a phone call from one Kolawole Timileyin who joined her with Adebayo Joshua Happiness, a final year student of Summit University Offa Kwara State who was requesting Mojisola to follow him to his sign out party holding at Whitefield Hotel, Ilorin and be paid N15,000.
Awesu Mojisola later accepted the offer and left Offa to meet up with Adebayo at Ilorin.
Awhile later, Awesu Mojisola complained of being uncomfortable with the culprit at the hotel room that she was lodged because Adebayo Joshua Happiness was smoking Hemp.
Thereafter, Awesu Mojisola’s phone suddenly became unreachable and her whereabouts unknown.
He said that immediate police action led to the arrest of Adebayo Joshua Happiness who was fingered in the sudden disappearance of the victim.
He further added that during investigation, it was revealed that Joshua Happiness had deliberately lured Awesu Mojisola from Offa to Ilorin on the pretense of inviting her for a joint sign-out party of Summit and Al-Hikma Universities purported to be holding at Whitefield Hotel but it was fake.
On the early hours of 10/08/2024, Adebayo Joshua Happiness killed and abandoned the lifeless body of Awesu Mojisola in the hotel room, locked the room and ran away with Mojisola Awesu’s iPhone 11pro and her N15,600 to Offa.
Police said during investigation, the culprit confessed that he invited Awesu Mojisola to Ilorin from Offa deceiving her that there is a sign out party at Whitefield Hotel Ilorin, killed her and abandoned the lifeless body in a hotel room, locked it and fled with her money and iPhone to Offa.
The prosecution further told the court that the mother of the prime suspect, Adeniyi Bukola, assisted Happiness to remove the sim card in the victim’s phone and hid it in a fence block far away from their residence at Ogunse area in Offa while the suspect’s father assisted in keeping the iPhone in a family car parked within their compound.
The court did not however take the plea of the suspects.
However, the defense counsel, Mr A. Iwalaye, pleaded with the court to grant all the suspects bail adding that they would not jump bail and will be regular in their appearance at the court proceedings and also ready to provide reliable sureties to stand for them in the court.
But the prosecutor, ASP Isaac Yakub, opposed the plea, saying that the case was criminal and involved the termination of a life of a human being.
The Chief Magistrate, Mr Wahab Saka, then ordered the remand of the suspects at the Federal Correctional Centre, Oke Kura, Ilorin.
The Magistrate adjourned the case to September 12, 2024 for further hearing.
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