A plumber working with Hilton Hotel, Ile-Ife, Osun State,
Kazeem Oyetunde, has said he and the manager, Adeniyi Aderogba, were told that
the corpse of late Timothy Adegoke was being taken to the mortuary by Roheem
Adedoyin on the day the body was dumped in the bush.
Oyetunde, under cross-examination by the lead prosecution
counsel, M. Omosun, on Thursday, also said he queried Roheem who is the
Managing Director of the Hotel when he diverted the vehicle to the area where
the body was dumped after they had removed the corpse from the room on his
instruction.
He further explained that he alongside Aderogba followed
Roheem to room 305 where Adegoke had lodged and saw him lying dead on the bed.
He said Roheem later left them at the hotel, saying he
wanted to inform the police of the incident, but returned late in the evening
and when asked why it took him so long, the MD told them that the police asked
him to write reports about the incident and that they instructed him to take
the corpse to the mortuary.
He admitted that he and Aderogba assisted the MD to carry
the corpse into a Hilux van driven by Roheem, whom he said instead of driving
towards the mortuary, drove towards Ede road, and when he asked him why he did
not take the body to the mortuary as instructed, told them that he was afraid
of the police.
He also said only Roheem took the corpse out of the vehicle
and took it to where it was dumped in the bush and denied conspiring with
anyone to kill the deceased, adding that he did not take an oath of
confidentiality
Also, the supervisor in charge of the security at the Hilton
Hotel where the deceased slept on the day he died, Lawrence Oluwole, during
cross-examination by Omosun, said he only checked the record book of the
receptionist on duty and the rooms that were without guests on the day the
incident happened.
Oluwole added he did not also check room 305 where the late
Adegoke slept and did not know the deceased in person.
According to him, one security man, whom he could not recall properly was at the entrance to the hotel on November 6 when he visited the hotel.
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