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Cops Who Tortured 20-Year-Old To Death Granted Bail In Ondo State

The police corporal who tortured Mohammed Oluwatobi Badmus, the 20-year-old young son of a popular hotelier, to death has been arraigned at a Magistrate Court sitting in Akure, the Ondo State capital.

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The police corporal who tortured Mohammed Oluwatobi Badmus, the 20-year-old young son of a popular hotelier, to death has been arraigned at a Magistrate Court sitting in Akure, the Ondo State capital.

30-year-old Corporal Adesola Awodeyi was arraigned alongside two of his accomplices, Adedeji Adekunle, 32, and Adepetu Olamilekan, 27, before Chief Magistrate Charity Adeyanju.

At a court session on Monday, the three killers were arraigned and charged with an offence of “manslaughter,” as recommended by the Department of Public Prosecution (DPP). The three pleaded “not guilty” to the crime.

After having been kept in police detention for thirteen months prior to being arraigned, the three were granted bail at a sum of N500,000, with two sureties each in like sum.

The three killers were policemen attached to the “B Division” of the Ondo State Command of the Nigerian Police Force (NPF).

They were in police detention for thirteen months prior to being arraigned.

The young Mr. Badmus died on July 21st, 2014, after the three cops tortured him at the police detention cell. He was rushed to a private hospital, where he finally gave up the ghost.

A smartphone said to be the property of Bisi Adedugbagbe of the Celestial Church of God, Ife-Oluwa Parish in Akure, was at the center of the issue.

Mr. Adedugbagbe had reported the phone stolen to his police friend, Corporal Awodeyi of the B Division police station, who arrested Mr. Badmus for the theft.

Mr. Badmus’s father, Raheem Afolayan Badmus, owner of the popular Ages Hotel in Akure, believes that the law enforcement agents tortured his son, a graduate student of Idris Premier College at Ilesha Garage Akure, by giving him a large dose of a chemical substance to inhale until he died.

Following the case, an autopsy was conducted to determine the real cause of Oluwatobi’s death but surprisingly two different reports emerged.

The police had consulted a pathologist for the autopsy, stating that the death of the deceased was natural, but the family rejected the report and solicited another autopsy, which stated that the young Mr. Badmus had not died of natural causes.

The remains of the 20 year-old youngster were kept at the morgue of Ondo State’s general hospital for over a year after the case had been begun, but the court finally ordered the remains be released to the family for burial. 

Magistrate Charity Adeyanju adjourned the case until September 30th, 2015.

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