An
Akure Chief Magistrates’ Court on Monday remanded 27- year-old
Seidu-Shakiru Adeyemi in Olokuta prison for allegedly killing his
25-year-old girlfriend, Khadijat Oluboyo.
The
News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Khadijat, the daughter of
a former deputy governor of Ondo State, Alhaji Lasisi Oluboyo, was a
final year student of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko.
She was found dead in her boyfriend’s house on July 2.
The
Chief Magistrate, Mrs Victoria Bob-Manuel, ordered the remand of the
accused in prison custody pending the receipt of legal advice from the
State Director of Public Prosecution.
Bob-Manuel ordered that the original copy of the case file be sent to the State Chief Registrar for safe keeping.
Earlier,
the prosecutor, Sgt. Mary Adebayo, had told the court that the accused
person and others at large conspired together to strangulate Khadijat
to death and buried her in his room.
According to prosecutor, the accused person committed the offence on July 2 at about 7:30 pm at Aratunsi St., Oke-Aro, Akure.
She
said that the offence was contrary to and punishable under Sections
324 and 316 of the Criminal Code Cap. 37, Vol. I Laws of Ondo State of
Nigeria, 2006.
The
plea of the accused was not taken, while the Chief Magistrate adjourned
the case till Aug. 23 for receipt of the legal advice.
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