Driver to die by hanging for killing lecturer
A LAGOS High Court sitting in Ikeja presided over by Justice Olubunmi Oyewole has sentenced a driver, Kehinde Olude to death by hanging for the murder of a lecturer. Delivering the judgment, Justice Oyewole said he had examined the submissions of the prosecution led by Luqman Sanusi and the defence counsel, Mrs. Femi Ajanaku and “found the defendant guilty as charged and convicted him accordingly”. The judgement came 12 years after the accused murdered his victim, Mr. R. A. Adisa, a Senior Lecturer at the Federal College of Education, Okene, Kogi State. According to Justice Oyewole, “The sentence of the court upon you, Kehinde Olude, is that you be hanged by the neck until you be dead and may the Lord have mercy on your soul”. Olude was alleged to have murdered Adisa on November 29, 2000 in Alafon Village along Lagos/Ibadan Expressway and dispossessed his victim of his new ash-coloured Honda car contrary to Section 319(1) of the Criminal Code Cap 32, Vol. 2, Laws of Lagos State 19
