An Osun State High Court sitting in Osogbo on Thursday ordered that hotelier Ramon Adedoyin be remanded in Ilesa correctional custody over the death of Timothy Adegoke, pending the determination of his bail application.
Mr Adegoke, a postgraduate student of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), allegedly died in Adedoyin’s Hilton Hotel and Resorts and was evacuated secretly.
Others arraigned alongside Adedoyin were six of his hotel’s staff, Adedeji Adesola, Magdalene Chiefuna, Adeniyi Aderogba, Oluwale Lawrence, Oyetunde Kazeem and Adebayo Kunle.
Adedoyin was docked on 11 count-charge bordering on conspiracy, murder, altering of evidence, felony, indecent interference with the deceased’s body among others.
Adedoyin’s lawyer K. Eleja, while moving for bail, said he relied on his written address and the medical report issued by the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital, as well as Asokoro District Hospital in seeking the court’s permission to admit the defendant to bail.
Counsel to the other defendants Kunle Adegoke also moved for bail, saying the affidavits and exhibits before the court speak for themselves.
However, Adegoke urged the court to grant a short adjournment to allow him to file a bail application for the seventh defendant, Adesola Adedeji, who was newly included as a defendant in the matter after the charge was amended 24 hours ago.
Prosecution counsel M. Omosun did not object to the application for adjournment.
Chief Judge Adepele Oyebola-Ojo, thereafter, gave the remand order and adjourned till March 4, 2022.
