The Nigeria Police Force on Tuesday withdrew a case against the owner of Hotels and Resorts, Ile-Ife, Dr Rahmon Adedoyin and six others charged with the murder of Timothy Adegoke, who died at the hotel on November 6, 2021.
The police told an Abuja High Court on Monday that the Force wished to discontinue all proceedings in the murder case for “further investigation”,
Others charged with the educationist are Adedeji Adesola, 23; Magdalene Chiefuna, 24; Adeniyi Aderogba, 37; Oluwale Lawrence, 37; Oyetunde Kazeem, 38; Adebayo Kunle, 35, and others still at large.
Adegoke died in controversial circumstances where he lodged at Hiltons Hotels and Resorts, Ile-Ife, to sit for an examination. He was subsequently buried by the hotel management in a shallow grave without the knowledge of his family or the police.
The Nigeria Police Force has since charged the owner of the hotel, Rahmon Adedoyin, and six others before an Abuja High Court over the murder of Timothy, who died at the hotel on November 6, 2021.
According to the case summary and proof of evidence filed by the police, Adedoyin is being charged with illegally disposing of Adegoke’s body, altering and cancelling his payment receipt and removal of the hotel’s CCTV cameras with intent to destroy evidence.
Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has asked the Inspector General of Police, Usman Baba, to transfer the suspects involved in the gruesome murder of Timothy Adegoke from an Abuja court to a competent court in Osun State.
Falana, who is the lawyer to the family of the deceased Master’s student of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, made the request in a letter dated February 4, 2022.
It was titled, ‘Request to charge suspects in Timothy Adegoke’s case at the Osun State High Court’.
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