Oriyomi was sentenced to
death by Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo, after he was arraigned on multiple counts of
murder.
The court convicted him
of killing his best friend, Femi Adekeye, in front of his four-year-old
daughter.
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Metro had followed Oriyomi’s case since 2013
when he was arrested and released in controversial circumstances.
The convict had been
arrested for murder on September 9, 2013, and arraigned before the Ebute-Meta
Magistrate’s Court where he confessed to being a member of the Black Axe
Confraternity and owned up to four other murders between 2010 and 2013.
He was remanded in
prison pending the advice of the Directorate of Public Prosecutions, but was
released under controversial circumstances, after which he jumped bail.'
On January 29, 2014, it
was reported that the suspect led gunmen to Amodu Street, Mushin, where they
killed a pregnant woman, Musili Bello, her 12-year-old daughter, Suliat, and a
motorcycle rider, Baba Monday.
On February 10, 2014, the
police said the suspect also led a gang to Ewenla Street, Mushin, and killed
another woman, 38-year-old Agbabiaka, her 4-month-old baby, Aishat, and another
woman, Adeboye.
It was reported in March
2014, that the suspect killed his best friend, Adekeye, in front of his
four-year-old daughter on February 12, 2014, at the deceased’s residence on Isa
Street in Aboru, in the Ipaja area of Lagos State.
In April 2014, the
police said the suspect again led a suspected team of cultists to Akala Street,
Mushin, and killed one 26-year-old Azeez.
A team of Investigating
Police Officers from the State Department of Criminal Investigation, Yaba, had
told a Yaba Magistrate’s Court that Oriyomi, and others confessed to the
crimes, while witnesses would testify in court.
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Metro learnt that Oriyomi escaped all the murder
charges, except for that of his best friend whom he killed in front of the
daughter.
A police source
said,
“The testimony of the
little girl was what saved the case.
“After we could not
establish the other murder charges due to absence of strong evidences, the
small girl gave an eloquent testimony of how her father was killed in her
presence. The judge tried to sway her by asking if the police prosecutor taught
her what to say.
“She said yes. The judge asked what she was
taught to say. She said, ‘She said (the prosecutor) I should speak the truth.’
“She narrated how Adigun (Oriyomi) entered their
room with a ‘big gun’ and her father begged him to kill only him and spare the
lives of his children. She told the court that immediately he shot her dad
dead, she quickly carried her baby sister and ran away from the room.”
The judge, after
listening to the five prosecution witnesses, who also included the deceased’s
wife, brought the case to a close on Monday.
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