The Lagos State Police Command has reaffirmed that Ayomide Adeleye, who confessed to murdering Christianah Idowu, his friend and neighbor, has been charged with murder and remains in custody.
This clarification came from the state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, following claims that Adeleye was not being held in any Lagos correctional facility.
SP Hundeyin stated, “We can confirm that Ayomide Adeleye was charged with murder and was remanded for the same offence.
“It is also a fact that another person bearing the same name was remanded for a different offence and released in April 2024, long before the Ayomide we are talking about committed his offence.
“An outfit that prides itself on investigation should live up to its name. Relying on ‘sources’ rather than the spokesperson of the Correctional Service would land you in this kind of misinformation.”
Adeleye, a 200-level Philosophy student at Olabisi Onabanjo University, admitted in September to killing Idowu, a 300-level student at the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Ogun State.
He was arraigned on November 5 before Magistrate Seyi Omodara at the Ogba Magistrate Court. The magistrate issued a remand order, authorizing his detention at the Ikoyi Correctional Center pending advice from the Directorate of Public Prosecutions.
