Lagos Police Confirm Ayomide Adeleye’s Detention for Murder of Friend
The Lagos State Police Command has confirmed that Ayomide Adeleye, who confessed to murdering his friend and neighbor, Christianah Idowu, is in custody and has been charged with murder.
State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, made the announcement on Saturday, addressing rumors that Adeleye was not being held in any Lagos correctional facility.
“We can confirm that Ayomide Adeleye was charged with murder and was remanded for the same offence,” Hundeyin said.
He also clarified that reports linking Adeleye to an earlier case involving another person with the same name were inaccurate.
“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,” Hundeyin stated.
The spokesperson criticized the spread of misinformation and urged the public to rely on verified sources.
“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,” he added.
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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.
On November 5, Adeleye appeared before Magistrate Seyi Omodara at the Ogba Magistrate Court, where a remand warrant was issued, authorizing his detention at the Ikoyi Correctional Centre pending advice from the Directorate of Public Prosecutions.
