It is exactly two years since the family of Kehinde and Bukola Fatinoye were wiped off the surface of the earth, yet justice for them still lingers, DAILY POST reports.
It was the New Year day of 2023, and like many other believers, Kehinde, a former employee of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, and Bukola Fatinoye, alongside their only surviving son, Oreoluwa, attended the 2022/2023 crossover service at the Christ Anglican Church Iporo-Ake, Abeokuta, Ogun State.
They went home after the service, reveling in the excitement of the new year, unknown to them that they were being trailed.
The couple who lives at Oba Karunwi Road, a street right behind former Governor Ibikunle Amosun’s residence, in Ibara GRA, Abeokuta, at about 1:30 am were robbed, gruesomely murdered and their house set ablaze.
DAILY POST reported that the suspected assailants, Lekan Adekanbi, Ahmed Odetola, and Waheed Adeniji, tied their son, Oreoluwa and adopted son, Felix, with ropes and threw them into a river along Adigbe-Obada road, where Oreoluwa died.
The major suspect, Lekan, who led the rest of his team into the house, was said to have been Mrs Fatinoye’s driver for almost two years and was well known within the community of the Federal University of Agriculture, FUNAAB, where the deceased woman worked.
In February 2023, the suspects, Adekanbi Lekan, Odetola Ahmed, Adeniyi Waheed and their accomplices, Fadairo Temitope and Adekanbi Adenike, were arraigned at the Magistrate Court in Abeokuta on an 11-count charge bordering on conspiracy, murder, felony, arson, setting properties ablaze, stealing, escape from lawful authority, among others.
The Police Counsel, Miss Oluwatosin Jackson moved a motion ex parte pursuant to Section 306 of Administration of Criminal Justice Laws of Ogun State, praying for an order of the court to remand the defendants.
Jackson prayed the court to remand the defendants for 60 days in the first instance at Oba Correctional Centre pending legal advice from the office of the State Director of Public Prosecution (DPP).
The magistrate, Esther Idowu, remanded the suspects for 60 days pending advice from the DPP.
However, the suspected killers, Lekan’s aged mother, his wife and two others who bought the deceased vehicle, appeared back in court after spending months at the correction centre.
DAILY POST reports that the matter was later transferred to the State High Court in Abeokuta, where trial has been concluded.
DAILY POST also gathered from sources within the Correction Centre and the court that the suspects were awaiting judgment on February 3rd, 2025.
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