Double Drama As Suspect, Victim’s Family Hurl Abuses In Court, Lawyer Accused Of Stabbing Hubby Remanded

Double drama transpired in court in a celebrated case recently.

According to emerging details

An Ibadan Chief Magistrate’s Court sitting in Iyaganku, yesterday remanded Mrs. Yewande Oyeniran, who allegedly stabbed her husband, Lowo Oyeniran, to death on February 2, 2016, at Akobo area of Ibadan, in prison custody.
There was a mild drama at the premises of the court when the two family members of the couple, confronted each other with abusive songs.

The presiding chief magistrate, Mrs Kehinde Durosaro-Tijani, in the case marked: MI/1539/2016, ordered that the accused person should be remanded in Agodi Prisons and adjourned the case to February 16 for mention.

The prosecuting police officer, Inspector Amos Adewale, had preferred one-count charge against the suspect, who pleaded not guilty.

The prosecutor, told the court that “Yewande on February 2, 2016, at about 06:10am at No 30 Abidi Odan Akobo area, Ibadan in the Ibadan Magisterial District did unlawfully cause the death of one Oyelowo Oyediran, 38, by stabbing him with knife on the neck, which later resulted to his death.”

He further told the court that the accused had committed an offence contrary to Section 316 and punishable under Section 319 of the Criminal Code Cap 38 Volume II Laws of Oyo State of Nigeria, 2000.

The court rejected a request by the defence counsel, Mr Seun Abimbola, to have Yewande remanded in police custody because she was traumatised as a result of the incident.

Another drama occurred when some officials of the Nigerian Prisons Service threatened to attack journalists and photographers who had positioned themselves near a Black Maria that was to convey Yewande and other accused persons to Agodi Prisons.

The suspect was however conveyed out of the court premises in a blue Primera Nissan car purportedly owned by a lawyer, while other accused persons were taken to Agodi Prisons in a Black Maria.

When leaving the court room, Yewande was led downstairs through the staircases in the dock, which prevented journalists from capturing her picture. She was led through Court Five into the blue Nissan Primera car probably to shield her from the waiting cameras of journalists

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