Law & Crime
Killing of Rev father: Kaffin-Koro youth burnt police station
Following the killing of a Catholic priest ,Rev father Isaac Achi last Sunday Some angry youths of Kaffin-Koro, Paikoro local government area have burnt down the Police station located in the area.
It was gathered that the youths were angered due to the police lukwarm attitude by refusing to act fast the day the Bandits attack the church despite the cry by people to the police to intervene when the gunmen attacked his residence on Sunday morning at about 3am.
Reliably report also have it that during the protest cars, houses including the police out post were burnt while several persons sustained various degrees of injuries.
Confirming the development in the area, the state Commissioner for Internal Security and Humanatirian Services, Hon Emmanuel Umar said though, the state government is pained by the incident, nobody has the right to flaunt the law.
The commissioner stated that the state government will not allow any form of violence that would lead to destruction of government property,since the incident happened on Sunday, you have seen the commitment by the government that is why, “we are calling on the communities to support government in riding the state of bandits and not to take side by vandalizing government property.”
Hon Emmanuel,however disclosed that a security team has already been dispatched to Kaffin-Koro to do an on the spot assessment of the situation, especially the remote cause of the violence outbreak by the Youths.
Also contacted,the state Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO DSP Wasiu Abiodun confirmed the burning down of the police station in the area by angry youths, and said it was as a result of lack of quick response in rescuing the Catholic Priest.
PPRO further explained that the youths are angry that the police are supposed to come on time to rescue because the house of Rev Father is just about one kilometer from the police station.
” They could not mobilize and get to the Rev father’s place to engage the assailants, as they ran away from the scene, before the arrival of the police. They added that what compounded the problem was the absence of water at the vicinity of the incidence to quickly put off the fire which makes the House and the body burnt to ashes”.
It would be recalled that last Sunday Rev Achi was set ablaze when the Bandits failed to get entrance into his house and was burnt to ashes.
Law & Crime
Court sentences killers of Ogun couple, son, to death by hanging
The Ogun State High Court in Abeokuta on Monday sentenced three persons to death for killing a couple, Kehinde and Bukola Fatinoye and their son, Oreoluwa, on 1 January 2023.
Trial judge Basirat Adebowale sentenced the trio – Lekan Adekanbi, was the family’s driver, Odetola Ahmed and Adeniyi Waheed – in a judgement which lasted for more than three hours, DailyPost reports.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the defendants were charged with 24 counts of armed robbery, armed robbery, conspiracy to murder, murder, arson, escape from lawful custody, perverting the course of justice and receiving stolen property, among others.
Gruesome murder
The assailants reportedly trailed Mr Fatinoye, a former employee of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), and his wife, Bukola, alongside their son, Oreoluwa, as they were returning home from the 2022/2023 crossover service at the Christ Anglican Church Iporo-Ake, Abeokuta.
The couple who lived at Oba Karunwi Road, a street behind former Governor Ibikunle Amosun’s residence, in Ibara GRA, Abeokuta, at about 1:30 a.m. were robbed, gruesomely murdered and their house set ablaze.
The assailants reportedly tied their son, Oreoluwa, and adopted son, Felix, with ropes and threw them into a river along Adigbe-Obada Road.
Penalties
Delivering judgement on Monday, the judge held that the prosecution proved its cases against the three defendants beyond reasonable doubt.
She found the three principal defendants guilty of murder.
The judge held that the convicts did not deserve mercy, as their lawyers had requested, because of the way they killed the couple and their son.
She convicted them of counts one to nine, handing them death by hanging or lethal injection, life imprisonment with hard labour, 14 years imprisonment among others for the various offences.
“The sentence of this court on Adekambi Lekan in respect of count II is that you be hanged by neck until you’re dead or by lethal injection.
“May God have mercy on your soul,” the court held.
The judge also convicted Ms Fadairo, the wife of Mr Adekanbi, to two years imprisonment for perverting the course of justice by hiding her husband.
Meanwhile, Mr Adekanbi’s mother, Adenike, was also sentenced to one year imprisonment for making false statements to police officers.
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