The Kwara State Police Command has paraded six suspects allegedly involved in the killing of Awesu Mojisola, a female student of the College of Health and Technology in Offa.
Amidst those arrested are Mr. and Mrs. Adebayo Adeniyi, the parents of the primary suspect, Adebayo Joshua Happiness.
Fusion Chronicles gathered gathered that the couple were arrested after trying to interfere with evidence by retrieving their son’s belongings from his school.
Victor Olaiya, Kwara State Commissioner of Police, while parading the suspects at the Command Headquarters in Ilorin, on Friday, disclosed that Adebayo Joshua Happiness had invited Awesu Mojisola to attend a supposed sign-out party at Whitefield Hotel, Ilorin, Kwara State, promising her N15,000.
The CP also said that on August 13, 2024, at about 15:00 hours, the Offa Police Station received a report from Ogungbenro Blessing, a female resident of the Gbomi Area in Offa, Kwara State that her roommate, Awesu Mojisola, a 21-year-old graduating student of Kwara State College of Health Technology, had gone missing under suspicious circumstances.”
“The incident occurred on August 9, 2024, at about 1500 hours when Awesu Mojisola received a phone call from Kolawola Timileyin, a female student from the same institution.”
He said Timileyin relayed a message from Adebayo Joshua Happiness, an expelled final-year student of Summit University, Offa, Kwara State.
The suspects were identified as Adebayo Joshua Happiness (male), Adebayo Adeniyi (male), Adeniyi Bukola (female), Adeoye Adeola (male), Lawal Aminat (female), and Bulus Peter (male).
Items recovered include an iPhone 11 Pro.
Acting quickly on the report, the investigation by officers of the command led to the arrest of Adebayo Joshua Happiness.
Olaiya further explained that findings revealed that Adebayo Joshua Happiness had deliberately allure Awesu Mojisola to Ilorin under false pretenses, booking a hotel room around 18:00 hours with no intention of hosting a party.
“Further investigation revealed that at about 23:45 hours on the same day, Adebayo Joshua Happiness booked an additional room at the same hotel for another female, as an act to cover-up for his premeditated actions.”
“In the early hours of August 10, 2024, Adebayo Joshua Happiness brutally murdered Awesu Mojisola.”
According to the CP, “He abandoned her lifeless body in the hotel room, secured the room, and fled with Mojisola’s iPhone and a sum of Fifteen Thousand Six Hundred Naira (N15,600) stolen from the deceased.”
“He then returned to Offa and concealed the stolen phone in his hostel wardrobe.”
Through careful and discreet investigation, Mr. and Mrs. Adebayo Adeniyi, the suspect’s parents, were apprehended.
“Following their son’s arrest, they attempted to tamper with evidence by retrieving Adebayo Joshua Happiness’s belongings from his school.
“It was discovered that Mrs. Adeniyi Bukola had removed the SIM card from the deceased’s iPhone and concealed it within a wall some distance from their residence.”
Contradictory to Adebayo Joshua Happiness’s initial claim that he had discarded the phone in the Afelele River, Offa, both the iPhone and SIM card were recovered from his parents’ possession.
“Further investigation revealed that hotel staff on duty found the deceased’s body in the room and unlawfully disposed of her body at a refuse dump,” he added.
“The suspects involved in this act have been apprehended and charged with criminal conspiracy and causing the disappearance of evidence.” he said.
