An Ilorin Magistrate court has ordered the remand of one Iliasu Abubakar, in Oke-kura Correctional Centre, Ilorin, after confessing to have murdered his brother, Isah Abubakar, in Gwanara, Baruten local government area of Kwara state.
The defendant (Iliasu), reportedly carried out the act, claiming the deceased, Isah Abubakar, was having illicit affair with his wife.
He was dragged before magistrate Jumoke Bamigboye for culpable homicide contrary to Sections 221 of penal code law.
The First Information Report (FIR) said one Abubakar Umaru of Budo-Aiki, Fulani camp, via Gwanara, reported the matter at the community police post, before it was transferred to the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, Ilorin, for discreet investigation.
According to the FIR, Umaru, who is the father of the two, had gone to the camp of his sons, Isah and Illiasu Abubakar, but found no one around except for the cattle.
When he searched premises of the camp, the FIR revealed that Umaru found corpse of his son, Isah.
Isah’s neck was reportedly laced with machete laceration while his brother was no where to be found.
Discreet investigation into the matter however revealed that, Iliasu killed his brother and fled to Oyo State.
After he was arrested, the defendant confessed to the police to have macheted his brother on his neck because he was having illicit affair with his wife.
The police report noted that the deceased had once claimed before the defendant that he is the father of three year-old baby his wife is nursing.
The defendant, after confessing to the crime, said he had warned the deceased severally to desist from the act but failed to listen, and as such, attacked him, FIR said.
The prosecutor, Inspt Sanni Abdullah, prayed the court to remand the defendant in prison custody saying the offences against him is not ordinarily bailable.
He submitted further that the offences cannot be tried at the magistracy hence the need to remand the Iliasu till the matter is transferred to the appropriate court for hearing.
The prosecutor added that the defendant may commit similar offence if admitted to bail, saying he should rather be kept in the correctional centre pending the determination of the case.
Magistrate Bamigboye, ceded to the prayers of the prosecutor and ordered the remand of the defendant while the matter was adjourned to 26th November, 2019.
Also a 20-yr-old farmer, Abubakar Mohammedu, has also been remanded in the Oke-Kura Correctional Service Centre for allegedly causing the death of a medicine hawker, one Olalekan Oladapo in Offa garage area, Ilorin, Kwara State capital.
The defendant (Abubakar), was said to have killed the the deceased after failing to pay the sum of N50 worth of drug, bought from Oladapo..
He was on Tuesday, arraigned before magistrate Omotayo Shittu for the offences of culpable homicide contrary to sections 221, of penal code law.
The police First Information Report stated that one Chanbani John Gabriel of Owonifari house, Ajasse Ipo, reported the matter at the police station after receiving the news that the deceased had been attacked by unknown persons
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The complainant, who went to the scene of the attack with some others persons, found the deceased in his pool of blood, inside the bush, with multiple using been macheted severely.
Oladapo was said to have been pronounced dead by a medical doctor at the near by hospital where he was rushed to by the complainant.
Discreet investigation conducted at the Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, however led to the arrest of the defendant.
According to the FIR, Mohammedu, confessed that he met the deceased hawking drugs on motorcycle and requested for medicine that could cure headache.
After taking the drug, the defendant was said to have been feeling unusual, the development that made him walk away instead of paying the N50 for the drug, FIR divulged.
For demanding for his money, the FIR revealed that fight ensued between them which invariably, resulted into the death of the deceased..
Prosecutor Sanni Abdullah, in his submission, urged the court to remand the defendant on the basis that the offence against him is not ordinarily bailable.
He said the offence was capital in nature and that the defendant should not be admitted to bail as a way of preventing him from committing similar crime.
The magistrate, in his short ruling, ordered the remand of the defendant while the matter was adjourned to 25th November, 2019.