By “May God the giver of life have mercy on your soul,” Court Sentences Lagos Prince, Accomplice to death by hanging
The son of late Oba Adeyinka Oyekan, Adewale Oyekan, has been sentenced to death by the Lagos State High Court in Ikeja for killing a 62-year-old businesswoman and member of the Peoples Democratic Party, Sikirat Ekun.
Oyekan was sentenced alongside a domestic help, Lateef Balogun, on Monday by Justice Raliat Adebiyi for strangling Ekun and throwing her body into a well.
It was said that Oyekan committed the offences around 1am on October 1, 2012, at the deceased’s home at No 5, Babatunde Lalega Street, Omole Phase-1.
BlackBox Nigeria that the deceased, who owned a restaurant, was killed so has to possess her property.
Trouble began when Balogun’s job was terminated following a dispute between Ekun and him, which led to a conspiracy between the convicts.
It was further gathered that the convicts killed the deceased, threw her body into a well and tried concealing the corpse by throwing a generator and gas cylinder into the well.
The two afterwards took over her business and properties, including her bus, which they sold for N170,000.
The prosecutor, Akin George, had told the court that when an inquiry was made by family and friends about Ekun’s whereabouts, Oyekan informed the family members through a text message from Ekun’s phone that she had travelled to Abuja for the Eid-el-Kabir festival.
Delivering her judgement on Monday, Justice Adebiyi, in a two-hour judgement, noted that the prosecution had proved the charges of conspiracy to commit murder and murder beyond a reasonable doubt.
