By Ayodele Popoola
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An Akure Chief Magistrates’ Court has remanded three men at correctional centre over the alleged murder of a 36-year-old farmer, Sunday Ayeni.
The Hope Metro reported that Ayeni was stabbed to death on his farm, with his intestines exposed, just days after some herders compensated him for grazing on his farm and damaging his crops.
The defendants are: Abdullah Halilu Tumbi, 59; Mohamodu Adamu Bonkolo, 50; and Shagari Muhammed, 45.
The Chief Magistrate, A. Akinboboye, did not take the pleas of the defendants but ordered their remand at the Olokuta Correctional Centre in Akure pending the advice of the state Directorate of Public Prosecutions.
The police charged the defendants with two counts of conspiracy and murder.
Police prosecutor, Folashade Adeyemi, told the court that the defendants and others at large committed the offence on August 10, 2024 at Afiri Camp via Oka-Akoko, Akoko South-West Local Government Area.
According to the prosecution, the defendants allegedly conspired with others at large to kill the farmer, Ayeni, by stabbing him with a cutlass while he was working on his farm.
The charge reads: “That you, Abdullah Halilu Tumbi, Mohamodu Adamu Bonkolo, and Shagari Muhammed, and others at large, did stab one Ayeni Sunday ‘m’ during a clash with him on his farm with a sharp cutlass on his stomach, which eventually led to his death.”
The offence, according to the prosecutor, contravened Sections 316, 319, and 324 of the Criminal Code Law of Ondo State, 2006.
She urged the court to remand the defendants at any correctional centre in the state pending advice from the office of the DPP.
Magistrate Akinboboye ordered that the case file be duplicated and sent to the office of the DPP, and adjourned the case until December for mention.