Two suspects have been remanded in a detention facility after reportedly participating in the lynching of 25-year-old motorist Tope Olorunfemi in Ondo State.
A Magistrate Court in Akure, the capital of Ondo State, remanded the suspects, Victor Amos, 30, and Pelumi Farotimi, 42, in the Olokuta Correctional Center after they were charged with involvement in the death of the deceased, who was allegedly an internet fraudster known as Yahoo boy.
Recall that the deceased was slain on Easter Monday on Ijoka Road by an enraged crowd after his car plowed over some pedestrians.
The alleged crime was allegedly committed on April 10, 2023, at 9 p.m. by the suspects and other people still at large.
Sections 324, 316(1), and 451(6)(J) of the Criminal Code, Cap. 37, Vol. 2, Laws of Ondo State, were violated, according to the police.
Three of the offenders who were charged in front of an Akure Chief Magistrate Court were, however, given bail.
Boboye Ismaila, Samuel Olatunji, and Nurudeen Kumuteyi were released on bail with two sureties totaling N500,000.
According to Magistrate Musa Al-Yunus, the sureties were required to own landed property that was under the court’s jurisdiction.
Murder and arson were two of the three felonies on which the defendants were indicted.During the presentation of a medical report before the court, the prosecutor, Nelson Akintimehin, disclosed that the deceased’s death was brought on by a severe head injury sustained during the mob attack.
Akintimehin asked the court to ignore the counter-affidavits provided by the defense lawyers.In his decision, the magistrate noted that there were probable grounds to remand the two suspects, who were the first and third defendants.The case was adjourned to August 8, 2023.
