A 20-yr-old farmer, Abubakar Mohammedu, is currently cooling his heels in the Oke-Kura Correctional Service Centre for allegedly causing the death of a medicine hawker, one Olalekan Oladapo in Offa garage area, Ilorin, Kwara State capital.

The defendant (Abubakar), was said to have killed the deceased after failing to pay the sum of N50 worth of the drug, bought from Oladapo.

He was on Tuesday, arraigned before magistrate Omotayo Shittu for the offences of culpable homicide contrary to sections 221, of penal code law.

The police First Information Report stated that one Chanbani John Gabriel of Owonifari house, Ajasse Ipo, reported the matter at the police station after receiving the news that the deceased had been attacked by unknown persons.

The complainant, who went to the scene of the attack with some other persons, found the deceased in his pool of blood, inside the bush.

Oladapo was said to have been pronounced dead by a medical doctor at a nearby hospital where he was rushed to by the complainant.

A discreet investigation conducted at the Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, however, led to the arrest of the defendant.

According to the FIR, Mohammedu confessed that he met the deceased hawking drugs on a motorcycle and requested for medicine that could cure headache.

After taking the drug, the defendant was said to have been feeling unusual, the development that made him walk away instead of paying the N50 for the drug, FIR divulged.

For demanding for his money, the FIR revealed that fight ensued between them which invariably, resulted in the death of the deceased.

Prosecutor Sanni Abdullah, in his submission, urged the court to remand the defendant on the basis that the offence against him is not ordinarily bailable.

He added that the offence is capital in nature and that the defendant should not be admitted to bail as a way of preventing him from committing a similar crime.

The magistrate, in his short ruling, ordered the remand of the defendant while the matter was adjourned to 25th November 2019.

Source; http://www.ogbeta.ng/2019/11/20-yr-old-farmer-allegedly-murdered.html?m=1