An Ilorin Magistrates’ Court has remanded a 35-year-old teacher, David Ogundele, for the alleged murder of a member of staff of the mobile telecommunication company, MTN, Tosin Ashinwo (30), early this month.
Ogundele, a teacher at Landmark University Secondary School, Omu-Aran, Kwara State, was alleged to have killed Ashinwo, who was his girlfriend and stabbed her mother, Abiola Ashinwo.
The incident occurred at Tosin’s residence in Tanke area of Ilorin following an argument over his marriage proposal to the deceased. Ogundele is facing a charge of culpable homicide punishable with death and attempt to commit culpable homicide contrary to sections 221 and 229 of Penal Code Law.
The matter was transferred from ‘F’ Division Police Station, Ilorin to the State Criminal Intelligence and Investigation Department for discreet investigation according to the Police First Information Report (FIR) submitted to the court.
According to the FIR the accused was at Tosin’s residence at Tanke where he met her mother, Abiola (65), and made effort to convince the duo on his marriage proposal, a plea said to have been refused on the basis that Ogundele is a married man.
The FIR added that the refusal of the marriage proposal infuriated the accused; hence, he ran into the kitchen, picked a knife and stabbed Tosin to death on the spot. He was also alleged to have stabbed Tosin’s mother ‘all over her body to the state of coma’.
The victims’ mother, according to the FIR, is still receiving medical treatment at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH).
The police explained that after allegedly committing the crime, the accused went into hiding, but was arrested by security operatives at Oba-Ile, his hometown in Osun State.
When the charges were read to him, the accused pleaded not guilty, but the police prosecutor, Oderinde Abideen, told the court that investigation on the matter was not yet concluded.
