No fewer than 40 items have been tendered as exhibits by the Department of State Security Service (DSS) at the Ilorin High Court against suspected rapists and killers of a 300-level student of the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN) Olajide Blessing Omowumi.
At the resumed hearing of the case, an operative of the DSS, Igwe Imo, tendered a wooden toy gun as one of the
items allegedly used by the suspects to commit the crimes.
The suspects: Abdulazeez Ismail, Ajala Moses Oluwatimileyin (aka Jacklord); Oyeyemi Timileyin Omogbolahan; Abdulkarim Shuaib (aka Easy); Kareem Oshioyemi Rasheed (Rashworld); Abdullateef Abdulrahman, Daud Bashir Adebayo (aka Bashman) and Akande Taiye Oladoja were brought to court for alleged rape, murder and armed robbery.
The first three suspects are standing trial for alleged rape and murder of the 24-year-old student in their Tanke, Ilorin residence early last month.
Other items tendered as exhibits included one blue Samsung phone with IMEI 352031/496383/6, one black Lenovo phone, one golden Nokia phone with model number TA-1053, one motherboard, one blue itel phone, one black HP 15 laptop with model number 15-r002se, one black hp pro book 45ogi with serial number 2CE3481LIP, and two other laptops, as well as two hard drive (500gb).
The security service also presented three witnesses, including a girlfriend of the eighth accused, Zainab Olaiya.
The witness told the court that Akande Taiye called her with a phone number suspected to be that of the late Blessing Olajide.
She was tracked and invited by the DSS and this later led to the arrest of the accused person through her.
Another witness, a policeman, Adewale Adesola, while being led in evidence, described the sixth accused person as a neighbour he had known for the past 15 years.
He said the accused person gave him the stolen phone for safe keep.
However, the police officer said he kept the phone with him between June 10th and 12th, 2021 but was yet to institute an investigation on the item when he was invited by the DSS.
He told the court that he queried the accused about the source of the phone which he suspected to be a stolen item.
The presiding judge, Justice Ibrahim Yusuf also came down hard on counsel to the seventh accused Sikiru Solagberu for reportedly disrespecting the court.
Justice Yusuf had last Wednesday ordered the arrest of Mr. Solagberu by security agents for allegedly exhibiting conduct unbecoming of a lawyer after court proceedings by making uncomplimentary remarks in some television stations and social media platforms.
The judge equally expressed displeasure over the lawyer’s decision to communicate his withdrawal from the case through a letter delivered by his secretary to the court.
He, however, accepted Solagberu’s apology through his counsel, Kehinde Eleja (SAN) and discharged him accordingly.
He adjourned the case till Tuesday, June 13, 2021, for the continuation of the hearing.
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