Justice Served: Ekiti Man Sentences to Death for Murder
An Ekiti State High Court, Ado Ekiti Division, has sentenced a 28-year-old man, Ayodeji Alomoge, to death by hanging for killing a man having an affair with his wife.
Alomoge, who was tried on a count charge bordering on murder, according to the charge, had “on the 21st of June 2022, at Ikere Ekiti, murdered one Ogunleye Ayomide, contrary to Section 234 of the Criminal Law of Ekiti State, 2021.”
The father of the deceased, Ige Ogunleye, in his statement to the police, said that he received a call that his son (the deceased) “had been beaten to a pulp by Alomoge and his gang. I rushed down to the place and found my son in a pool of his own blood with various degrees of injury on his head and mouth.
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I also encountered Alomoge being held by some people. I asked him the reason for his action, and he said Ayomide had been having an affair with my wife, and he had warned him to desist or else he would kill him.
“I took him (Ayomide) to a nearby hospital and later to the University Teaching Hospital, Ilorin, Kwara State, where he later died.”
The prosecutor, Kunle-Shina Adeyemo, called five witnesses and tendered the defendant’s statements, pictures of the deceased, and a medical report of the cause of death as exhibits.
The defendant spoke in his defense through his lawyer, Adeyinka Opaleke, who pleaded to the court to temper justice with mercy. He called no witnesses.
In the court judgment on Thursday, Justice Jubril Aladejana said, “It would appear to me that rivalry between men over the affection of a woman should not be a ground to justify provocation unless the situation is such that it is sudden and leads to a heating of passion.
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I consequently find the defendant guilty of the murder charge against him and therefore convicted as charged.”
The court pronounced that “Ayodeji Alomoge shall be hanged by his neck until he be dead.”
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