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Court remands two herbalists, four others for killing Osun resident, cutting body into pieces

Uba Group

TIMOTHY AGBOR, OSHODI

A Magistrate Court sitting in Osogbo, Osun State, Tuesday, ordered the remand of six men at the Ilesa Correctional Centre for allegedly killing a 35-year-old man, Ayoade Fasesan and dismembering his remains.

The suspects arraigned and remanded include, Ifaseun Afolabi, 40, Ifadare Afolabi, 38, Badmus Shakiru, 29, Adeleke Kabiru, 38, Oloyede Maruf, 39, and Oseni Mukaila, 32.

The Police Prosecutor, ASP John Idoko, informed the court that Ifaseun and Ifadare, said to be herbalists, and others now at large, conspired and murdered Fasesan on May 24, 2021 at about 9:30pm in Ikirun, Osun State.

Idoko also said that the duo and four other defendants conspired at the same time and place and tampered with the corpse of Fasesan by cutting his head and other parts into pieces. He informed the court that the six defendants unlawfully had in their possession human parts.

He argued that the defendants committed offences contrary to and punishable under Sections 324, 319(1), 517, 242 and 329A of the Criminal Code, Cap 34 Vol II, Laws of Osun State of Nigeria, 2002.

The accused persons were slammed with a six-count charge by the Police.

The court, however, did not take the plea of Ifaseun and Ifadare on the first and second counts bothering on murder because it lacks jurisdiction to entertain it.

The duo and four other defendants pleaded not guilty to the third, fourth and fifth counts bothering on indecent interference with the corpse of Fasesan, cutting its head and other parts into pieces and unlawful possession of human parts.

Defence counsels for Shakiru, Kabiru, Maruf, and Mukaila – A. O. Olodo, Taiwo Awokunle and Olugbenga Awoyemi – applied for their bail and argued that their offences were bailable. Barrister K. A. Adepoju, appeared for Ifaseun and Ifadare.

The Police Prosecutor opposed their bail applications on the ground that killings and other crimes were rampant in the state and that the punishments the offences carry would force the defendants to escape if granted bail.

Magistrate O. A. Daramola ordered that all the defendants be remanded in the Ilesa Correctional Centre pending their re-arraignment at Ikirun Magistrate’s Court on August 18.

Daramola ordered the prosecution to forward the case file of Ifaseun and Ifadare to the Department of Public Prosecution for legal advice.

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