Police clarify Christianah Idowu’s alleged killer, Adeleye, is remanded in Ikori correctional centre on court order
Ayomide Adeleye, who late last year confessed to murdering his friend and neighbour, Christianah Idowu, is in custody and has been charged with murder, Lagos police have confirmed.
State Police Command Public Relations Officer Benjamin Hundeyin, a Superintendent of Police, made the clarification in response to claims that Adeleye was not being held in any Lagos correctional facility.
Hundeyin dismissed the reports as false and reaffirmed that Adeleye has been charged to court with murder and remanded at the Ikoyi Correctional Centre.
“We can confirm that Ayomide Adeleye was charged with murder and was remanded for the same offence,” Hundeyin said in a statement.
He described as misleading, reports linking Adeleye to an earlier case involving another individual with the same name.
“It is also a fact that another person bearing the same name was remanded for a different offence and released in April 2024, long before the Ayomide we are talking about committed his offence.”
Hundeyin stressed the importance of verifying facts through official sources, cautioning against relying on rumour and speculation.
“An outfit that prides itself on investigation should live up to its name. Relying on ‘sources’ rather than the spokesperson of the Correctional Service would land you in this kind of misinformation,” he counselled.
Adeleye, a 200-level philosophy student at Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), confessed last September to killing Idowu, a 300-level student at the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAB).
He appeared before Magistrate Seyi Omodara at the Ogba Magistrate Court on 5 November 2024 and the court issued a remand warrant, authorising his detention at the Ikoyi Correctional Center pending advice from the Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP).
– The Nation.
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