Court Remands Man In Jail For Selling Father To Ritualist For N1.8m

A magistrate court in Ado-Ekiti has remanded one Sunday Awobusuyi for the kidnap and murder of his 85-year-old father, OduNews reports.

The Magistrate, Bankole Okuwasanmi ordered that Awobusuyi, 42, alongside two others, Akinniyi (51) and Bobafe Sunday (51), be remanded pending advice from the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP).

Earlier, the prosecutor, Inspector Akinwale Oriyomi, told the court that the defendants conspired and kidnapped the aged man on February 1, at about 11am in Agbado-Ekiti, Gbonyin LGA, and that his corpse was, some weeks, later discovered in a shallow grave.

The prosecutor further alleged that the first defendant, Obasuyi, conspired with Akinniyi and sold his father for N1.8m to the third defendant, Sunday, who was an herbalist.

He noted that the offences contravened Sections 280, 279 and 234 of the Criminal Law of Ekiti State, 2021.