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Kwara student murder: Three family members, one other arraigned
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Four people including a final year student of Summit University, Offa, Adebayo Happiness were on Tuesday arraigned at a Kwara State chief Magistrate Court sitting in Ilorin over alleged murder of a 21-year-old graduate of Kwara State College of Health Technology, Offa, Awesu Mojisola.
Mojisola was allegedly murdered inside the room of Whitefield Hotel, Ilorin, Kwara State capital by Happiness on August 10, 2024 after deceiving her to attend a botched post graduation party in Ilorin.
Charged along with Happiness were his two parents, Adebayo Adeniyi (51) and Bukola Adeniyi (49) as well as an accomplice, 24 year old Timileyin Kolawole.
PUNCH Online reported August 30, almost three weeks after the murder took place that seven suspects had been arrested in connection to the crime.
However, four were charged before the court for alleged criminal conspiracy, culpable homicide, theft, false personation, and causing disappearance of evidence contrary to sections 97, 221, 287, 179 and 167 of the Penal Code Law and computer related frauds contrary to sections 14(2) (3), 22 (2) (3) of Cybercrime Prevention and Prohibition Law 2015.
The prosecution led by Isaac Yakub ASP told the Court that on August 14, 2024, one Blessing Ogungbenro reported at Offa Police station that her roommate, Awesu Mojisola, a graduating student of Kwara state College of Health Technology, Offa was missing since Friday, August 9, 2024 she told her that she received a phone call from one Kolawole Timileyin joining her to one Adebayo Joshua Happiness ‘m’ a final year student of Summit University Offa Kwara State who was requesting Mojisola to follow him to his sign out party holding at Whitefield Hotel, Ilorin for a fee of N15,000.
“Awesu Mojisola later accepted the offer and left Offa to meet up with Adebayo Joshua Happiness at Ilorin lately and that while Awesu Mojisola was with Adebayo Joshua Happiness, she complains of being uncomfortable with Adebayo Joshua Happiness in the hotel room that she was lodged because Adebayo Joshua Happiness was smoking Hemp.
“Thereafter, Awesu Mojisola’s phone suddenly became unreachable and her whereabouts becomes unknown adding that immediate police action led to the arrest of Adebayo Joshua Happiness who was fingered in the sudden disappearance of Awesu Mojisola.”
He said further that, “During investigation it was revealed that Adebayo Joshua Happiness had deliberately lured Awesu Mojisola from Offa to Ilorin on the pretense of inviting her for a joint sign-out party of Summit and Al-Hikma Universities purported to be holding at Whitefield Hotel but it was fake.
“At the early hours of 10/08/2024 Adebayo Joshua Happiness killed ond abandoned the
lifeless body of Awesu Mojisola in the hotel room, locked the room and ran away with Mojisola Awesu iPhone 11pro and her sum of N15,600 to Offa.
“During discreet investigation, Adebayo Joshua Happiness confessed that he invited Awesu Mojisola to Ilorin from Offa deceiving her that there is a sign out party at Whitefield Hotel Ilorin, killed her abandoned the lifeless body of Awesu Mojisola in the hotel room, locked it and flee away with her money and her iPhone to Offa.”
The prosecution further told the Court that the mother of the prime suspect, Adeniyi Bukola later assisted Happiness to remove the sim card in the victim’s phone and hid it in a fence block far away from their residence at Ogunse area in Offa while Happiness father assisted in keeping the iPhone in a family car parked within their compound.
The court did not however took the plea of the suspects.
The defense counsel, Mr A. Iwalaye however pleaded with the Court to grant all the suspects bail adding that they would not jump bail and be regular in their appearance at the court proceedings and “they are ready to provide reliable sureties to stand for them in the court.”
But the prosecutor, ASP Isaac Yakub opposed the plea saying that the case was criminal and involved the termination of a life of a human being.
The Chief Magistrate, Mr Wahab Saka then ordered the remand of the suspects at the Federal Correctional Centre, Oke Kura, Ilorin.
The case was adjourned till September 12, 2024 for further hearing.
The abductors of retired Major General Rabe Abubakar, former Director of Defence Information, and his wife released a video on Saturday showing the couple in captivity.
Abubakar, a retired major general, served as Director of Defence Information, the media arm of the Defence Headquarters, between 2015 and 2017.
Abubakar, and his wife were both abducted by suspected bandits in Katsina State.
The couple were reportedly travelling towards Katsina when gunmen intercepted their vehicle in Matazu Local Government Area and took them away.
In the now viral four-minute video circulating on social media, the wife of the retired general was seen conveying the abductors’ demands.
The demands included the release of three of their members identified as Sani, Aminu and Nasiru, as well as the return of livestock allegedly seized from them.
According to her account, two of the detained individuals were arrested in Jikamshi while the third was arrested in Kano.
She said: “Three of their boys have been arrested, including Aminu, Sani Nasiru and others, and they want them released alongside all their properties, their cows and goats that were captured as well.
“We are begging all those concerned to help us heed these demands so we can be released.
She also appealed to the Katsina State Government and leaders of five local government areas to facilitate compliance with the demands to secure their release.
“Two of the boys were captured in Jikamshi and the other one was arrested separately, so we are appealing to the government to please adhere to their demands, release them and release their cows.”
A young woman identified as Ihunda Nkiruka Jennifer, who was earlier declared missing after being abducted in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has been confirmed dead.
Her sister, Nurse Jane Ogbu, had earlier raised alarm on social media, calling for urgent public assistance to help locate her sibling. She explained that Jennifer was reportedly abducted by unidentified men, adding that she managed to throw her personal belongings out of the vehicle in a desperate attempt to signal what was happening before she was taken away.
In an update shared on Thursday, June 5, the family confirmed the worst fears that Jennifer had been found dead.
According to accounts from relatives, the incident is believed to have involved suspected “one-chance” operators, a term commonly used to describe criminals who rob passengers inside commercial vehicles.
The family stated that the search for Jennifer led them to a medical facility near the Air Force Road axis in Port Harcourt, where they were later informed that her body had been deposited at the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital (UPTH) mortuary.
Preliminary accounts from the family suggest that Jennifer may have been picked up around the Rumuosi area and later thrown from a moving vehicle along the Eliozu axis, close to Harmony Estate. They further alleged that she sustained severe injuries after being forced out of the vehicle and may have struggled with her attackers before her death.
The tragic development has sparked renewed concern over the rising cases of violent robberies and abductions involving commercial transport vehicles in parts of Port Harcourt and other major cities.
Authorities are yet to issue an official statement on the incident as investigations are expected to continue.
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ISIS Bride And Her Mother Charged After They Helped Dad Buy 15-Year-Old S£x Slave For £7,500 For Purposes Of R@ping
An ISIS bride whose family bought a teenage s£x slave for £7,500 has been charged with crimes against humanity.
Zeinab Ahmad, now 31, is said to have forced the 15-year-old girl to perform domestic duties and stood by as she was repeatedly r@ped by her father.
Zeinab abandoned her nursing studies in Melbourne, Australia, to join ISIS in Syria, where the alleged offences occurred, in 2014.
Her father Mohammed allegedly told the girl: “I bought you for the purpose of r@ping and at the same time serving the home.”
Melbourne Magistrates Court also heard that the father said to his family: “I bought her for s£x and to do housework.”
He bought the teen as a slave with his wife in Raqqa, the capital of ISIS-controlled Syria, police told the court. The alleged victim was brought back to the family home which the parents shared with their five daughters
Zeinab witnessed her father hit the girl and drag her by the hair down two flights of stairs, it is alleged. The girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was beaten two or three times a month while the family watched on, police said.
Detective Senior Constable Marc Clendenning told to the court Zeinab, then aged 22 and 23, “did not physically hurt her, although she did threaten her very badly and ordered her to do things around the house.”
In an interview with the police, the girl said that Mohammed s£xually assaulted her “many times”. She was sold on more than a year later after Mohammed told her she was “bad” and did not follow orders, local media in Australia reports.
Zeinab and her mother Kawsar Ahmad were among a group of ISIS brides arrested last month when they returned to Australia from Syria.
Zeinab is charged with two counts of slavery. She is accused of helping her family to enslave a Yazidi girl – a member of the Kurdish ethnic minority which lives in Syria. The girl is said to have been one of more than 6,800 Yazidi women and children who enslaved and repeatedly r@ped by members of ISIS.
Zeinab asked to be released on bail in Melbourne magistrates’ court on Thursday, June 4.
The Australian Federal Police have argued she would pose an unacceptable risk if she was released on bail.
Detective Clendenning said Zeinab had been married to multiple members of ISIS and was still the wife of an ISIS member currently being searched for by police.
He told the court: “The accused has never explicitly renounced or stated that she no longer supports Islamic State since her surrender to Kurdish forces.”
She is charged with two crimes against humanity: enslavement and use of a slave.
Her mother Kawsar is charged with four crimes against humanity.
Each holds a maximum penalty of 25 years in prison. The two-day hearing continues on Friday, June 5.
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