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OYO: Court fixes April for hearing in case of murdered army commandant
The trial of six suspects over the murder of Colonel Anthony Ekok Okeyin (52), an Army Commandant of the Nigerian Army Secondary School, Apata, Ibadan has been fixed for April 20th.
The new date was fixed by the Oyo State High Court sitting in Ibadan for the trial of six accused suspects identified as Agada Solomon Emmanuel, Taiwo Adeniyi, Bibisoye Kehinde, Ewere Andrew, Udobata Orusa-Uzie and Ephraim Obi.
Since their arrest, the suspects who have all been slammed with a five-count charge bordering on murder and armed robbery, have all been remanded at the Agodi Prison.
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According to the prosecution in the charge marked I/87c/2017 before Justice Segun Olagunju of the Ring Road High Cour6, the defendants allegedly “committed the offence at 6.15a.m. on December 12, 2016 at Commandant Quarters of the Nigerian Army Secondary School, Apata, Ibadan in the Ibadan Judicial Division by conspiring to commit felony to wit: murder, and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 324 of the Criminal Code, Cap 38, Vol. II, Laws of Oyo State, 2000”.
On count 2, they allegedly “caused the death of Colonel Anthony Ekok Okeyin by breaking his skull, thereby committing an offence of murder contrary to Section 316 and punishable under Section 319” of the same Criminal Code. On the count of robbery, the defendants allegedly did conspire to commit felony, armed robbery, using offensive weapon, that is, cutlass, to rob the deceased of his Samsung X4 and cash of N45,000.”
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