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BREAKING: Court Remands Adedoyin, Six Others In Prison Over Adegoke’s Murder

The owner of Oduduwa University Ile-Ife(OUI) and Hilton Hotels Ile-Ife, Dr. Ramon Adegoke Adedoyin has been remanded by the Osun State High Court sitting in Osogbo, over the death of Timothy Adegoke, a postgraduate student at Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU.

Recall Oyoaffairs.net had earlier reported that Adedoyin alongside six others will today appear at the Osun State High Court sitting in Osogbo after the matter was transferred.

The defendant was docked on 11 counts of charge bordering on conspiracy, murder, altering of evidence, felony, indecent interference with the deceased’s body among others.

Counsel to Adedoyin, Mr. K. Eleja, SAN, while moving his bail application said he relied on his written address and the medical report issued by the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital, as well as Asokoro District hospital is seeking the court’s permission to admit the defendant to bail.

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Also, counsel to other defendants, Mr. Kunle Adegoke, SAN, while moving application for bail of his clients, said the affidavits and exhibits before the court speak for itself and adopted the written address.

He added that the court has discretionary power to admit the defendants to bail and urged it to exercise it in favour of his client, considering that their sureties have deposed to an affidavit to ensure they do not jump bail.

However, Adegoke urged the court to grant a short adjournment to allow him to file a bail application for the seventh defendant, Adesola Adedeji, who was newly included as a defendant in the matter after the charge was amended 24 hours ago.

Prosecution counsel, M. Omosun did not object to the application for adjournment.

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Chief Judge Adepele Oyebola-Ojo in granting the application for adjournment ruled that the defendant be remanded in Ilesa correctional custody till Friday, March 4, 2022, to allow the application to be moved.

Earlier, there was a heavy security presence at the entrance to the premises of Osun state High Court, as Dr. Ramon Adedoyin, the owner of Hiltons Hotel, Ile-Ife, and six others were arrested in connection with the death of a Masters student of Obafemi Awolowo University, Timothy Adegoke, appeared before the court.

In anticipation of the crowd that may storm the court to witness the trial, the main gate of the premises of the High Court was manned by many heavily armed policemen and some plainclothes security men, suspected to be operatives of State Security Service.

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People going in were thoroughly searched and made to identify themselves before they were allowed into the premises.

At the entrance to the courtroom, policemen in plainclothes and protocol officers of the court subjected lawyers, journalists, and others going into the court to search before they were allowed in.

The seven defendants led by Adedoyin dressed in white kaftan had entered the courtroom around 8:47 am.

It was gathered that three men that had wanted to enter the premises of court were arrested by the police.

The men drove to the gate in an unregistered Nissan Micra car and were subjected to search when incriminating items were reportedly found on them.

The men were later whisked away in a police van towards Dugbe Divisional Police Station, Osogbo.

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