The Nigeria Police Force has withdrawn a case against the owner of Hotels and Resorts, Ile-Ife, Rahmon Adedoyin, and six others charged with the murder of Timothy Adegoke, a Masters degree student of the Obafemi Awolowo University who died at the hotel on November 6, 2021.
The deceased resided in Abuja but traveled to Ile Ife for his examination and lodged at the hotel where he allegedly died and then subsequently buried by the hotel management in a shallow grave without the knowledge of his family or the police.
In an application filed at an Abuja High Court on Monday, the police said it wished to discontinue all proceedings in the murder case so as to allow it carry out “further investigation”.
Others charged with the educationist are Adedeji Adesola, 23; Magdalene Chiefuna, 24; Adeniyi Aderogba, 37; Oluwale Lawrence, 37; Oyetunde Kazeem, 38; Adebayo Kunle, 35, and others still at large.
The police had moved Adedoyin and the six others from Osun State to Abuja for…
Source: Linda Ikeji
