Court Sentences killers Of Fasoranti’s Daughter To Death
Court Sentences killers Of Fasoranti’s Daughter To Death
Eagle’s Sight can authoratively report that The Ondo State High Court, Akure, on Friday, has finally passed death judgement on three persons for killing Mrs Funke Olakunrin, the daughter of the Afenifere leader, Chief Reuben Fasoranti.
Eagle’s Sight News recalls that the said deceased’Finke Olakinrin’ was on her way to Lagos after meeting the untimely death and killed by the convicts along Benin-Ore-Sagamu Expressway in the Ore Odigbo Local Government Area of the state in June 2019.
Apart from Olakunri, the convicts were also found guilty of killing one Mathew Ogunbiyi, who they killed in the bush.
Initially, four persons – Muhammed Usman, Mazaje Lawal, Adamu Adamu and Awalu Abubakar were arrested by the men of the Nigeria Police Force and charged to court for the offence.
They were arraigned before the court on eight counts bordering on murder, armed robbery and kidnapping.
After series of arguments from both the prosecution and defence counsels, the trial judge, Justice Williams Olamide found the first, second and third defendants (Muhammed Usman, Mazaje Lawal, and Adamu Adamu) guilty of involving in murder, kidnapping and armed robbery and sentenced them to death by hanging. The Punch confirmed.