Father of slain university student demands suspected killer whereabouts

The father of late Christiana Idowu, a 300-level student of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, who was allegedly murdered by 23-year-old Ayomide Adeleye has raised alarm over sudden silence on the whereabout of the suspect, one year after police arrest.

Penpushng reports that it would be recalled that the deceased was on August 2024 abducted while travelling from her home in Itaoluwo, Ikorodu, to the University of Lagos, Yaba, where she was observing her industrial training.

The Lagos State Police Command it would be recalled confirmed that the Nigerian Army handed over the suspect, a 23-year-old philosophy student of Olabisi Onabanjo University, who confessed to killing Christiana after luring her to his home under the pretext of fixing her phone.

Penpushing further reports that the suspect also recounted strangling her and extorting N360,000 from her mother while pretending she was alive, while his arrest came after investigators traced his SportyBet account, where he uploaded his National Identification Number.

The suspect during interrogation confessed that he killed the lady because he had financial challenges, however, one year after the bereaved father cried out in a video over lack of communication on the matter

Penpushing also reports that Idowu Oluwafemi, father of the deceased appealed to Nigerians for help, lamenting that one year after her murder, the case against the alleged killer, 23-year-old Ayomide Adeleye, appears stalled.

“Hello Nigerians, I’m Mr. Idowu Oluwafemi, the father of Christiana Idowu, who was murdered by a friend. It’s getting to a year now and the boy was arrested in the police custody. I’ve not heard anything concerning the case’, he lamented

Penpushing reports that he described Christiana as a brilliant student and begged for public support, emphasizing that up to a year now, he had not heard any update on the case

‘My daughter, she’s all that brilliant and I want you Nigerians to come to my aid. It’s a girl of 300 level in FUNAAB, and up to a year now I’ve not heard anything about a case. Please, I’m helpless, I’m in the dark, and I want you Nigerians to come to my aid and help me’, the father cried out.

“Please, I can’t just allow a girl just to go like that. Please, Nigerians, come to my aid. I don’t know whether the guy has been released at the moment. Please, help me, kindly help me. Please, Nigerians’, Idowu added.

Penpushing further reports that the Force Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, reacting to the video on Sunday, confirmed that Adeleye remained in custody, citing a January 2025 statement by the Nigerian Correctional Service.

The police spokesperson who was Lagos State Police Command Public Relations when the case was fresh emphasised that the suspect was duly remanded and the matter was pending advice from the Department of Public Prosecution.

Penpushing also reports that Hundeyin pointed out to Nigerians to the Correctional Service (NCS) clarification as proof that Adeleye had not been released, as contained in the January 6 release, dismissed claims that Adeleye was not in prison.

“A misleading report in some sections of the media concocting that an Awaiting Trial Person, Ayomide Adeleye, ‘is not in prison,’ has come to the attention of the Nigerian Correctional Service’, the statement reads.

“The said inmate aged 23 years with Custody Number: S-1995/24 was remanded at the Maximum-Security Custodial Centre (MSCC), Kiri-kiri, Lagos, for offence of kidnapping and murder on the 26th September 2024 by Magistrate Court 13A, Ogba, Lagos state, and was produced to same court on 16 December, 2024.”

Penpushing reports that the statement added that the presiding magistrate ordered Adeleye’s continued detention pending advice by the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP).

” The Service wishes to categorically state that the said inmate is still in the custody of the MSCC Kirikiri, Lagos, as ordered by the court, against the information being peddled by the mischievous report.”

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