BY TIMOTHY AGBOR, OSOGBO
Oyetunde Kazeem, one of the staff of Hilton Honours Hotel, Ile-Ife and the fifth defendant in the murder case of Timothy Adegoke, on Thursday, denied stealing the belongings of the deceased after his remains were dumped inside a bush.
Kazeem appeared as a witness when the matter came up for hearing before Justice Adepele Ojo of an Osun State High Court 1 sitting in Osogbo.
While being led in evidence by his counsel,
Murtala Abdulrasheed, the witness said the owner of the hotel, Rahman Adedoyin was not at the hotel promises on the day Adegoke lodged at the hotel, adding that fleeing Adedoyin’s son, Roheem, the Managing Director at the hotel, asked him (Kazeem) and two other staff to accompany him in taking the corpse to the mortuary.
He said it was on their way that Roheem parked and dumped Adegoke’s remains alongside his laptop, bag, vovo phone and money beside him.
Against the prosecution’s allegations that Kazeem conspired with Adedoyin Rahman to administer extra judicial oath on other workers of the hotel, Kazeem denied taking or administering any oath and insisted that he neither dumped the corpse nor stole any of his belongings.
While being cross-examined by the prosecuting counsel, Femi Falana, the witness denied driving the Hilux vehicle in which Adegoke’s remains were conveyed to the dumping site to Abuja, saying that the vehicle belonged to Roheem.
The witness was also cross examined by other defence counsels including K. k. Eleja, Rowland Otaru and Okon Edet Ita.
Meanwhile, the presiding Chief Judge of the state adjourned the matter till Friday, December 16, for continuation of hearing.