Emmanuel Thomas l November 22, 2016
Lagos, Nigeria – Ibrahim Omilade, son of Bashiru Omilade, the Bale of Mafoloku and two others, Shola Oni and Kayode Oni are now set to die by hanging for the murder of one Suleiman Afolabi at Eyin Ogun Street during a fight on a Christmas day in 2012.
They are to die by hanging following the guilty verdict slammed on them by her Lordship, Justice Kudirat Jose of a Lagos High Court, siting in Ikeja.
“I pronounce the defendants guilty in respect of the charge of murder and conspiracy…, they shall be sentenced to death, hanged by the neck until their death.”
She however cautioned youths to learn from the ordeal that befell the convicts. Noting that young ones should be careful about the habit of going about to attack people to settle scores.
Trouble began for the trio on 25th December, 2012 during a fight at the deceased house when they were invited by a neighbour to celebrate Christmas with him.
They said it was not too long on the said date that a young boy came in and informed them that the deceased brother, Akeem Afolabi had threatened to deal with them.
They claimed that they went to inquire the reason for the threat but while discussing Akeem ordered them to get away. He was alleged to have gone inside the house to get a cutlass with which he tried to attack one of them, an attempt, they said another blocked with his hand and got injured.
The convicts further narrated that it was while they were trying to dodge and plead with a berserk Akeem that Suleiman, a younger brother to the deceased was hit by the waist.
They said they got to know some days later that when a doctor had pronounced the deceased dead.
But the judge said their testimony before the court sounded rehearsed and polished, hence she relied on the evidence before the court presented by both the prosecution counsel, Mr. Babatunde Oguntemowo and Mr. Olarewaju Ajanaku as well as points of law to pass judgement of death for the murder and 12 years for conspiracy counting from the day there were arrested.
