The Nigeria Police Force has withdrawn a case against the
owner of Hotels and Resorts, Ile-Ife, Rahmon Adedoyin; and six others charged
with the murder of Timothy Adegoke, who died at the hotel on November 6, 2021.
NigerianEye learnt
that the police told an Abuja High Court on Monday that the Force wished to
discontinue all proceedings in the murder case for “further investigation”.
Others charged with the educationist are Adedeji Adesola,
23; Magdalene Chiefuna, 24; Adeniyi Aderogba, 37; Oluwale Lawrence, 37;
Oyetunde Kazeem, 38; Adebayo Kunle, 35, and others still at large.
The police had moved Adedoyin and the six others from Osun State to Abuja for investigation and prosecution.
According to the case summary and proof of evidence earlier
filed by the police, Adedoyin is being charged with 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.
“Take notice that the complainant discontinue all of the
proceedings in this case against the above named defendants for further
investigation,” said Ochogwu Ogbeh of the Legal and Prosecution Section of the
Force Criminal Investigation Department, Abuja.
One of the counsels for the defendants, Yusuf Alli (SAN),
confirmed the development to our correspondent on Tuesday.
Recall that the student died in
controversial circumstances where he lodged at the hotel to sit for an
examination. He was subsequently buried by the hotel management in a shallow
grave without the knowledge of his family or the police.
Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, had 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
Master’s student of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, made the request in a
letter dated February 4, 2022.
The senior lawyer had argued that the criminal offences were
said to have been committed at Ile-Ife and that the suspects ought to have been
charged before a court of competent jurisdiction in Osun.
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