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The Nigerian government has approached the Federal Capital Territory High Court in Abuja, asking it to discontinue the suit filed against Dr Ramon Adedoyin, the owner of the Hilton Hotel in Ile-Ife, Osun State, where a murdered postgraduate student of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Timothy Adegoke, had lodged.

In the court document obtained by SaharaReporters on Tuesday, the Nigerian government which is the complainant notified the court that it was discontinuing the matter in a letter, titled, “Notice of Discontinuance of Charge No. CR/015/22 Brought pursuant to Section 108 of istration of Criminal Act (ACJA) 2015.”

The notice reads, “Take notice that the Complainant discontinues all of the proceedings in this case against the above-named Defendants for further investigation, dated this 7th day of February 2022.”

The Nigerian police had in January 2022 filed charges against the owner of Hilton Hotel, Adedoyin, and others over the death of Timothy Adegoke.

Controversy has surrounded Adegoke’s death since he went missing lodging at Hilton Hotel and Resort in Ile-Ife, Osun State, following which his corpse was later found in a grave.

He was in the ancient city to sit an examination at the OAU Distance Learning Centre, Moro campus, when he was declared missing on November 7, 2021.

The defendants had been listed as Dr Ramon Adedoyin, Adedeji Adesola, Magdalene Chiefuna, Adeniyi Aderogba, Oluwale Lawrence, Oyetunde Kazeem, Adebayo Adekunle, Prince Raheem Adedoyin, Esther Asigoh and Quadiri Moshood.

Those the police said are still at large are Raheem Adedoyin, Esther Asigoh and Quadiri Moshood.

The discontinuation may be in connection with a letter written by human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, asking the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, to move the trial of the suspects to Osun State.

SaharaReporters on Monday reported that Falana, the lawyer representing the family of the slain master’s student of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Timothy Adegoke, asked that the trial of all suspects arrested in connection with the student’s death at the hotel be held in Osun State.

The lawyer had said the demand was made since none of the elements of the offence to be tried by the FCT High Court took place in Abuja.

The letter had partly read, “To our utter dismay, the arrested suspects have been arraigned before the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory on a 7- count charge of conspiracy to commit murder, murder, conspiracy to commit improper or indecent interference with the body of the deceased, uttering and intent to destroy evidence under the Penal Code.

“However, as all the aforesaid criminal offences were said to have been committed at Ile-Ife you will agree with us that the suspects ought to have been charged before a court of competent jurisdiction in Osun State.

“Consequently, we are compelled to request you to use your good offices to ensure that the case file is handed over to the Attorney-General of Osun State to enable him to study same with a view to filing relevant charges against the suspects at the High Court of Osun State.

“Having demonstrated professionalism and unusual courage in the handling of the investigation of the case we are confident that you will not hesitate to accede to our request in the interest of justice. Otherwise, we shall not hesitate to institute legal proceedings to compel you to ensure that the criminal proceedings are instituted pursuant to the Criminal Code (34) Laws of Osun State.”

SaharaReporters also learnt that the discontinuation of the trial by the Nigerian government was only a face-saving measure used by the police as Tuesday had already been set for the bail application for the defendants and they were certain to get the bail.

“This discontinuation was a face-saving measure by the police. Today (Tuesday) had been selected for his bail application and he was certain to get bail,” a source revealed.

http://saharareporters.com/2022/02/08/breaking-timothy-adegokes-murder-nigerian-government-discontinues-suit-filed-against

This country is dangerous

An attempt to create a technical loophole that will be exploited at appellate courts has been truncated.

What a country!!!

I guess Seun or Lalasticlala is related to Adedoyin because the news about the murder of Timothy Adegoke hardly make Frontpage except the frivolous news published by Vanguard of Truth

Hh

Hope justice is served

Even if it takes long, Justice wii be served, no man deserves such brutal death

(Un)Social media mob just tarnished this man! No investigation, no trial yet he was declared guilty!

Something needs to be done with the recklessness on the unsocial media. Let the court decide if he's guilty or innocent,let the system punish the real perpetrator of the crime .

Every information from Saharareporters must be consumed with caution because it carries a lot of fake news. I will be the last one to be surprised if this man eventually turns out to be innocent.
True justice is ensuring that it is the true perpetrator that is punished, not punishing an innocent person.

The hypocritical and highly judgemental (un)social media mob should please let the court establish that he is guilty and served maximum punishment.

He was not released, Femi Falana who is the lawyer for the late Adegoke's family is the one who asked for the case to be withdrawn from Abuja and transferred back to osun state where the crime was committed.

Adegoke’s family is gradually getting it

Ok

Good
Fct lack jurisdiction to hear the case
They're returning back to Osun

SarkinYarki:
This country is dangerous

you forgot to put VERY VERY

His blood will hunt ur generation.

#JusticeForTim

May your killers never find sleep.

How do you mean No investigation? Do you think the withdrawal of the charges means he is been freed?
You better wake up from your day dreaming..

The earlier ndi ofe mmanu start telling themselves d truth d better.
why do they believe so much in ritual, every junction u go to, u would see one ritual or d other.
They never believed in smartness at all, all about them is juju and that's why whenever they see somebody doing well in his or her business, they would tagg d person's success with juju or charms.

Seems we are other right part by moving the case back to the appropriate jurisdiction it should be heard.

NIGERIA IS A LOST COUNTRY

We are watching
Even Hamzat oriyomi don tire for this matter

yemex04:
How do you mean No investigation? Do you think the withdrawal of the charges means he is been freed?
You better wake up from your day dreaming..

You dey mind the dumb miscreant?

FreeStuffsNG:
(Un)Social media mob just tarnished this man! No investigation, no trial yet he was declared guilty!

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What kind of messed up human being are you? Anywhere anything evil is happening, you are here ing it. You seriously need to get help because it's obvious you have a serious psychological problem.

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iCauseTrouble:
I guess Seun or Lalasticlala is related to Adedoyin because his news hardly make Frontpage except the frivolous news published by Vanguard of Truth

Honestly I can confirm that your observation may not be far from the Truth..I have observed this trend consistently it appears they are sympathetic to the side of Chief Adedoyin.

Many people won’t digest what they read before spitting rubbish. It was Adegoke’s family lawyer (Falana) that asked for the case to be discontinued at the federal level and be brought to the jurisdiction which the crime was committed (Osun State). This clearly might not be unconnected to a fact that there might be much interference at the federal level. And aside that, it was wrong from the onset to had gone federal when the state has competent courts. Falana simply corrected an anomaly.

FreeStuffsNG:
(Un)Social media mob just tarnished this man! No investigation, no trial yet he was declared guilty!

Something needs to be done with the recklessness on the unsocial media.

Read and understand before rushing to make comments

Good development.
Do the crime, do the time.


Buhari, a good man with evil Intentions