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KWARA PASTOR, WIDE, SON ARRAIGNED OVER STUDENT'S DEATH, TAMPERING WITH EVIDENCE. (PHOTO).


 Kwara pastor, wife, son arraigned over student’s death, tampering with evidence


A clergyman, his wife and 24-year-old son have been arraigned over the killing of Mojisola Awesu, a student of the College of Health Technology in Kwara State.


The suspects, Pastor Adebayo Adeniyi (51), his wife, Bukola (49), and their son, Joshua Happiness, were arraigned over a four-count charge of criminal conspiracy, culpable homicide, theft, false information and causing disappearance of evidence.


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According to the Police First Information Report (FIR), the victim was allegedly killed by the student who contracted her to pose as a girlfriend for N15,000 at a party which happened to be a scam.


“Happiness, the son of the pastor, deliberately lured Mojisola from Offa to Ilorin and later killed and abandoned her lifeless body in the hotel room, locked the room and ran away with Mojisola’s iPhone 11 Pro and her N15,000,


“He hid the phone inside his wardrobe in his school hostel room and during investigation, he said his father instructed him to lie that he threw the stolen iPhone into Afelele Lake, Offa, but it was discovered that his parents removed the SIM card from the said iPhone, wrapped it in a paper and hid same in the block of a fence of a building far away from their residence where it was later recovered by the police, “the sheet read inpart.


The defendants denied the allegations.


Counsel to the defendants, Barr Iwalaye, urged the court to grant them bail.


In his ruling, the Magistrate, Wahab Saka, ordered their remand at the federal correctional centre, Ilorin, and adjourned the case to September 12, 2024.

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