OAU Student: Police Withdraw Murder Case Against Adedoyin

The murder case filed against the owner of a Hotel and Resort in Ile-Ife, Ramon Adedoyin and six others by the Nigeria Police Force has been withdrawn.

Adedoyin and six others were charged with the murder of Timothy Adegoke, who died at the hotel on November 6, 2021.

It was gathered that the police on Monday told an Abuja High Court that it wishes to withdraw all proceedings in the murder case for “further investigation”.

Others charged in the murder case are Adedeji Adesola, 23; Magdalene Chiefuna, 24; Adeniyi Aderogba, 37; Oluwale Lawrence, 37; Oyetunde Kazeem, 38; Adebayo Kunle, 35, and others still at large.

Recall that NPF moved the hotel owner and six others from Osun State to Abuja for investigation and prosecution.

The police in the case had accused Adedoyin of illegally disposing of Adegoke’s body, altering and cancelling his payment receipt and removal of the hotel’s CCTV cameras with intent to destroy evidence.

But in a ‘Notice of Discontinuation of Charge No.CR/015/2022 brought pursuant to Section 108 of Administration of Criminal Act 2015’, on February 7, 2022, the police told the court to discontinue the matter.

The Legal and Prosecution Section of the Force Criminal Investigation Department, Abuja, Ochogwu Ogbeh had said, “Take notice that the complainant discontinues all of the proceedings in this case against the above-named defendants for further investigation.”

This is coming after human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, asked the Inspector General of Police, Usman Baba to transfer the suspects from the Abuja court to a competent court in Osun State.

Falana who is the lawyer to the family of the deceased made the request in a letter dated February 4, 2022.

According to the senior lawyer, the offences were committed in Ile-Ife and the suspects ought to be charged before a court in Osun State.