The Lagos State Police Command has debunked a report that Ayomide Adeleye, who was arrested for killing Christianah Idowu, had been released.
The spokesperson of the command, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, in a statement on Saturday, January 4, 2025, said that the suspect was charged with murder and remanded.
Hundeyin made the clarification in response to a report by the Foundation for Investigative Journalism (FIJ) claiming that Adeleye is not in prison and was never remanded for murder.
Recall Adeleye, a 200-level Philosophy student at Olabisi Onabanjo University confessed in September to killing Idowu, a 300-level student at the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Ogun State.
On November 5, Adeleye appeared before Magistrate Seyi Omodara at the Ogba Magistrate Court, where she granted a remand warrant for his detention at the Ikoyi prison pending the availability of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) advice.
Reacting to the publication on X, Hundeyin, clarified that a person with a similar name but charged with a different offence was released in April 2024.
“We can confirm that Ayomide Adeleye was charged with murder and was remanded for the same offence,” the PPRO stated.
“It is also a fact that another person bearing the same name was remanded for a different offence and released in April 2024, long before the Ayomide we are talking about committed his offence
“An outfit that prides itself on investigation should live up to its name. Relying on ‘sources’ rather than the spokesperson of the Correctional Service would land you in this kind of misinformation.”
