An Abeokuta Magistrates’ Court has remanded four teenagers at correctional home for alleged ritual murder of a twenty year-old Sofiat Okeowo.
The police had charged twenty years old Balogun Mustakeem, eighteen years old Majekodunmi Soliudeen, nineteen years old Abdulgafar Lukman, and eighteen years old Waris Oladeinde, on a two- count charge of conspiracy and murder of the deseased.
Magistrate Abudu, who did not take the plea of the accused, ordered that they be remanded in the correctional home..
Magistrate Abudu ordered that the suspects should be remanded in Oba correctional service, pending Legal advice from Ogun State Director of Public Prosecution (DPP).
She, however, adjourned the case till fourteenth of March for mention.
The Prosecutor, an Inspector of Police, Mr. Lawrence Balogun, told the court that the accused committed the offence on twenty eight of January. this year at Kugba area in Abeokuta.
Mr. Balogun alleged that the accused conspired among themselves and murdered one Sofiat Okeowo who was a girl friend to one of the accused, Soliudeen.
He said the accused killed her by cutting off her head with a cutlass.
According to the prosecutor, the accused murdered Sofiat with the plan to use her for money ritual.
The prosecutor said that the offence contravened sections 324, 316 of the Criminal Code Laws of Ogun 2006.
Wale Oluokun
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