Justice Ibrahim Yusuf of the Kwara State High Court on Monday, ordered that the seven suspects linked to the murder of Mojisola Awesu, a student of the Kwara State College of Health Technology, Offa be remanded in the correctional facility.
The Tribune gathered that the judge’s order to remand the seven suspects followed absence of the counsel to 5th, 6th, and 7th defendants in the court.
Counsel to the 1st and 4th defendants were not in the court the last time the case was brought up for hearing on February 3, 2025.
It is recalled that only the prime suspects, Adebayo Joshua Happiness and Timileyin Kolawole were remanded in correctional facility at the last date.
The absence of the counsel to the 5th, 6th, and 7th defendants did not go down well with the trial judge, Justice Ibrahim Yusuf, who was visibly angry with the development.
Thus, he ordered that all the seven defendants be remanded in correctional facility until March 4, 2025, which is the next adjourned date.
Counsel to the first defendant is Lawal Chinwo, Fatai Ahmed is counsel to second and third defendants, while A. H. Sulu-Gambari is counsel to the fourth defendant.
Adebayo Joshua Happiness and Timileyin Kolawole are the prime suspects accused of conspiring and causing the death of Mojisola Awesu on August 9, 2024.
Happiness Adebayo and his parents Adebayo Adeniyi and Bukola Adeniyi were accused of conspiring and causing disappearance and destruction of evidence punishable under the Penal Code law of Kwara, 2006.
Adeoye Adeola, Lawal Aminat, and Peter Bulus were accused of conspiring and dumping the corpse of Mojisola Awesu at a dump site along Warah Road, Ilorin, punishable under the Kwara state Prohibition of Dealing in Human Parts Law, 2018.
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