Some people would have started blaming buhari or shouting witch hunting,if this had happened to their prince.

madapcmod:
Prodigal son

Don't study Architecture in America unless you want to remain there.

Fiat justita.

I seriously doubt if this man is a true son of the late respected Oba of Lagos.

He may be one of the descents of Palace slaves who sometimes adopt the names of royal families. The real descendants of the Obas know themselves and this doesn't fit into their class.

oyatz:
I seriously doubt if this man is a true son of the late respected Oba of Lagos.

He may be one of the descents of Palace slaves who sometimes adopt the names of royal families. The real descendants of the Obas know themselves and this doesn't fit into their class.

There just too many of them.
Some didn't turn out right.

vicdom:

https://www.channelstv.com/2019/12/16/ex-oba-of-lagos-son-oyekan-sentenced-to-death/

For these people to say they met for the 1st time at the police station, they should be stoned to death. They were both working for Alhaja at the same time. They were the ones that even told the police where they dumped Alhaja's corpse. Their plan was to sell Alhaja's house and share the money. I'm glad they have been sentenced to death. Wicked people

Who supports the numerous motor park thugs and touts in Onitsha, Owerri and Aba?

Godwin2am:
lagosian and Thurgry are like 5&6 the government of Lagos support it , that's why agboros full every bustop no plan at all for these group of boys because they support it. bye

slimfit1:
1000 feet really I'm not sure if human being can dig that deep oh.

I'm not sure those guys know what 1000ft mean.. Ordinary 20ft swimming pool be like Atlantic ocean, not to talk of one thousand feet.

Princeton92:
She was probably pregnant for him OR he was indebted to her!

They wanted to sell her house.

"The convicts who have been in custody for seven-years murdered Ekun by strangling her and throwing her corpse into a 1,000-feet well located in her home."

Well of 1,000 feet? That can't be right. Likely a journalist typo

Princeton92:
She was probably pregnant for him OR he was indebted to her!

A woman in her 60s pregnant? The kind of comment I dey read here na wa!

BabaRamota1980:


Lagos has a very low water table, which means you would already be in fresh water supply by about 60ft dig.

Like i said, some vital pieces of the story is missing.

Voltron,
Do you have a frontal full feature picture? Side views can produce false identification sometimes.

Picture below is Bajulaiye of Lagos, a Prince and son of Oba Oyekan. This criminal needs to look like this guy, moreso they are around same age. Report said the criminal was 50 when the crime was commited in 2012, he has to be about 57/58 now...same age range with Bajulaiye.

The report says the 50-year old prince, it didn't say he was 50 then.

Plus, it is not a must anyone has to look like anyone. It's left to genes to determine that.

Abeg which well be 1000ft?

Abi na DAT well for the film 300 web deh dem throway people inside?

Abeg explain oo..

Na Buhari and his cabal deserve that well.

chigoziri2403:
6000naira just to take a soul you cant create

dey should poison d boy and not any other means

Sad tale

lagdmark:

So when a doctor visits a patient to treat him/her it becomes paying a homage abi?

Using 50liters to take a dose of paracetamol get as e be.

slimfit1:
1000 feet really I'm not sure if human being can dig that deep oh.

The question is, who measure the well?

femi4:
Aaah...Abomination, Orí Adé ki i sun ẹ̀wọ̀n

Omoluaabi…

Eleyi ti fi ori Ade t'ele oo..

Nitori naa, ika to ba se l'oba nge..

Death sentence without execution!

Ashley86400:

They probably meant a 100.

Even that one is too much oh

This must be the son of the current "lagoon" oba of Lagos

The Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja has sentenced a Lagos prince, Adewale Oyekan, and one Lateef Balogun to death.

The 50-year-old prince and his 27-year-old accomplice who is a former domestic staff were sentenced on Monday for killing one Sikirat Ekun, a 62-year-old businesswoman and a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Adewale is the son of Oba Adeyinka Oyekan, the Oba of Lagos who passed away on March 1, 2003.

He hired Balogun for N6,000 to murder Ekun.

The convicts who have been in custody for seven-years murdered Ekun by strangling her and throwing her corpse into a 1,000-feet well located in her home.

While convicting and sentencing the defendants in a two-hour judgement, Justice Raliatu Adebiyi said that the prosecution had proved the charges of conspiracy to commit murder and murder beyond a reasonable doubt.

“The circumstantial evidence was strong and cogent; the act of the defendants in killing the deceased was intentional and premeditated,” she held.

The judge added, “The court finds that the prosecution has proved beyond reasonable doubt the offence of conspiracy and murder and are accordingly found guilty of the two-count charge.

“Section 221 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State 2011 stipulates the punishment for the offence of murder as follows:

“Subject to the provisions of any other law, a person who commits the offence of murder shall be sentenced to death. Same is the punishment for conspiracy to commit murder as contained in Section 231 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State 2011.”

Justice Adebiyi noted that the provisions of the law she cited do not give the court any discretion whatsoever in sentencing the defendants.

“For this reason, the first and second defendants are hereby sentenced accordingly on each of count one and two to death by hanging. May God the giver of life have mercy on your soul,” she said

The leader of the prosecution team, Mr Akin George, explained that the convicts committed the offences at on October 17, 2012, at about 1am at the home of the deceased in the Omole Phase I of the state.

He stated that the deceased was a restauranteur who knew Oyekan due to her friendship with his late mother and employed him as the manager of her restaurant just to render assistance to the prince.

“Balogun the second defendant, was a former domestic staff of Ekun who was employed by her (Ekun) to take care of her elderly father. His employment was, however, terminated following a dispute with Ekun.

“The convicts conspired, killed the deceased, and threw her corpse in a well within the premises of her home and took over her businesses and properties, including her bus which was sold for N170,000,” George narrated.

He added, “When any enquiry was made by family and friends about her whereabouts, Oyekan informed them that she had travelled to Abuja for the Ileya festival. He passed this information by sending a text message from Ekun’s mobile phone.

“Following panic and worry from members of Ekun’s family and after an extensive search, her corpse was found two months later in December 2012 by well diggers and firefighters.”

“The convicts had placed a generator, a gas cylinder and other household items on the corpse to conceal it in the 1,000 feet well,” the lawyer said.

The trial at the State High Court began on April 14, 2015, and five witnesses including police officers, Ekun’s nephew, Iyiola Olaniyi, and her only child, Mrs Folashade Amurun, testified against the convicts.

On the other hand, Oyekan and Balogun testified in their defence.

Giving their testimonies, both convicts denied knowing each other, noting that they met for the first time at the police station.

They also denied committing the offence.

Oyekan, in his evidence, said that he met Ekun who was a friend of his mother at a PDP rally in 2011 after he had returned from the United States of America where he obtained a degree in architecture.

He said he met the deceased thereafter at her home where she offered to assist him by employing him to manage her restaurant.

Before the sentence was passed, the defence counsel, Mr O.C. Onwumerie, did not make an allocutus (plea for mercy) while the trial was ongoing.

“I will be leaving sentencing to the hands of the court,” Onwumerie said.
https://www.channelstv.com/2019/12/16/ex-oba-of-lagos-son-oyekan-sentenced-to-death/

Adewale Oyekan is a disgrace to his family and to royalty.

He is faced with death sentence.

Except the Lagos state government through the governor of Lagos use his magnanimity and veto power to convert the death sentences to something much lighter.

Adewale Oyekan and his partner in crime in the murder of Sikirat Ekun will be a goner.

He should have lived a descent life considering the good legacy of his late father who was Oba of Lagos state.

BabaRamota1980:


Certain segments of this story is missing links.

Even sons of the ex-Oba who never went abroad are properly positioned in good jobs. As an Architect and a son of immediate past Oba he just needed to go see Bajulaiye of Lagos, and he would be secured with a good job.

I doubt this guy is a true son of Oyekan. The palace has servants and officials that live on the grounds and have done so for generations. They born children at their quarters in the palace and sometimes from playing and growing with royal princes these children get confused and I suspect that is the case here.

He is the son of Oyekan. Your theory doesn’t make sense. Even if Oyekan does not know all his children, surely the wives would know their own kids.

How can you confuse him with being a prince to the extent of sponsoring his education to the US and back. Are you saying he can also be confused with a prince and become oba tomorrow? It doesn’t happen mahn.

I am from one of these families and trust me they know every member dating back many generations. Random People and sons of servants don’t just get confused with being princes.

This guy was just obviously a fvkc up, maybe even a drug addict. And these days once you want to be a fvkc up it doesn’t matter who your father was people will free you.

Do you know how many people must have tried to help him based on his father only for him to burn their fingers? This story and the fact that he finished university over the age of 40 should tell you that was the kind of person he was.

He has obviously been given many chances in life which he squandered until this woman decided to help him with a small job, based on her relationship with the family too, at least so he can make ends meet, and he fvkced that up too.

TonySpike:
"The convicts who have been in custody for seven-years murdered Ekun by strangling her and throwing her corpse into a 1,000-feet well located in her home."

Well of 1,000 feet? That can't be right. Likely a journalist typo

Not a journalist typo, Lawyer said that in the court of law.

You know, our Lawyers can exaggerate for Africa.


Between, i still doubt the authenticity of this story.

DMerciful:
A whole prince ? Lagos and thuggery! They've been throwing people in lagoon since 1900! No wonder a certain Oba wanted to throw people in the lagoon!

Association of name checkers has done the work and we are pleased with the names..

BabaRamota1980:


Certain segments of this story is missing links.

Even sons of the ex-Oba who never went abroad are properly positioned in good jobs. As an Architect and a son of immediate past Oba he just needed to go see Bajulaiye of Lagos, and he would be secured with a good job.

I doubt this guy is a true son of Oyekan. The palace has servants and officials that live on the grounds and have done so for generations. They born children at their quarters in the palace and sometimes from playing and growing with royal princes these children get confused and I suspect that is the case here.

My feelings exactly when I read the story on Facebook newspaper sites this morning.

Son of the premier king of Lagos, educated well abroad, and not getting a lucrative job in Nigeria?

The story does not just add up, there are still some missing links.

uuzba:
Don't study Architecture in America unless you want to remain there.

How do you mean?

BabaRamota1980:


Certain segments of this story is missing links.

Even sons of the ex-Oba who never went abroad are properly positioned in good jobs. As an Architect and a son of immediate past Oba he just needed to go see Bajulaiye of Lagos, and he would be secured with a good job.

I doubt this guy is a true son of Oyekan. The palace has servants and officials that live on the grounds and have done so for generations. They born children at their quarters in the palace and sometimes from playing and growing with royal princes these children get confused and I suspect that is the case here.

It's hard for me to believe that any of Oba Oyekans sons especially one with a degree in architecture will end up working in a lowly restaurant especially with the good will Oba Oyekan had around Nigeria

AngelicBeing:
But I am happy that he will be executed for his sins, useless son of perdition

Angelic, one out of how many.
It's just because the old man no dey.
Just like abacha. If he is still alive, let's see who will touch his money.
Abeg, forget naija and corruption. It makes no sense

sassysure:

Angelic, one out of how many.
It's just because the old man no dey.
Just like abacha. If he is still alive, let's see who will touch his money.
Abeg, forget naija and corruption. It makes no sense

Lol, and that is why the country is doomed