A 50-year-old Lagos prince, Adewale Oyekan, and a former domestic servant, Lateef Balogun , were on Monday sentenced to death by an Ikeja High Court for the murder of Sikirat Ekun, a 62-year-old businesswoman and politician.The prince hired Mr Balogun for N6,000 to murder Mrs Ekun, according to the prosecution.
She said: “The circumstantial evidence was strong and cogent; the act of the defendants in killing the deceased was intentional and premeditated. “Subject to the provisions of any other law, a person who commits the offence of murder shall be sentenced to death. “For this reason, the first and second defendants are hereby sentenced on each of counts one and two, to death by hanging. May God, the giver of life, have mercy on your souls.”
“The convicts conspired, killed the deceased and threw her corpse in a well within the premises of her home, and took over her businesses and property including a bus which was sold for N170,000. “The convicts had placed a generator, a gas cylinder and other household items on the corpse to conceal it in the 1,000 feet well,” he said.Five witnesses, including two police officers, a nephew of the deceased, Iyiola Olaniyi; and the only child of the deceased, Mrs Folashade Amurun, testified for the prosecution.While testifying, the convicts both denied knowing each other, saying that they met for the first time at a police station. They also denied committing the offences.
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