An Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court has remanded three men in Kirikiri Maximum Correctional Centre in Lagos for 30 days over alleged robbery and murder of one Sanni Adeniyi, an aide to Senator Solomon Adeola aka Yayi.
The suspects are Fred Okunnu, 43, Lucky Idudu, 33, and Segun Adedigba, 26. Their addresses were not mentioned in court.
Chief Magistrate T.R.A. Oladele, who did not take the defendants’ plea for want of jurisdiction, on Tuesday ordered their remand in custody for 30 days, pending advice from the office of Director of Public Prosecution (DPP).
Oladele, thereafter, adjourned the matter till January 9, 2024 for further hearing.
Earlier, the prosecutor Victor Eurada informed the court that the case was of conspiracy to kill, murder and armed robbery.
He said there was an affidavit in support of the remand request sworn to by the investigating police officer (IPO), ASP Adekunle Adeshina.
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The prosecutor said the defendants on August 5 from 1.30 pm till 2.00 pm at New Garage, Berger bus stop, on the Lagos/Ibadan expressway, conspired to murder and commit armed robbery.
“The defendants and others at large unlawfully and intentionally shot and killed Mr Sanni Adeniyi with an English brownie pistol, a locally made Beretta pistol and a knife,” he said.
Eurada further stated that the defendants stole the deceased’s unregistered Toyota Camry saloon car, 2017 model, black in colour, valued at N12 million, which was being driven by him as at the time he was flagged down.
“The second defendant, Lucky Idudu, with the intent to be taken as a member of the Nigerian Armed Forces, wore a military camouflage T-shirt, jungle hat and boots and flagged down the deceased to rob him.
“The defendants, during interrogation, said they had in their possession at the time of the robbery an English brownie pistol with three 7.65mm live ammunition and a locally-made beretta pistol with six live cartridges, which they could not give a satisfactory account of,” the prosecutor said.
