Breaking: Court remands cleric who ‘killed’ final-year student, 4 accomplices in prison
A magistrate court sitting in Ilorin has ordered that 29-year-old cleric Abdulrahman Muhammed Bello, along with four others who allegedly killed Hafsat Lawal, a final-year student at the Kwara State College of Education, be remanded at the Oke-Kura Custodial Centre.
Magistrate Sanusi Muhammad, in his short ruling, could not take the plea of the defendant due to lack of jurisdiction to entertain the matter. He ordered that Abdulrahman be kept at Oke-Kura until March 6, 2025.
The Informant247 had earlier reported that the police had brought Abdulrahman before the magistrate court.
He was charged, alongside his four accomplices, with criminal conspiracy, culpable homicide, armed robbery, and being in possession of human parts.
Those arrested by the police include: 41-year-old Islamic scholar Ahmed Abulwasiu from Adualere in Ilorin; 28-year-old Neo Life businessperson Sulaiman Muhydeen from Amilegbe in Ilorin; 29-year-old phone repairer Jamiu Uthman from Adualere in Ilorin; and 31-year-old farmer Abdulrahman Jamiu from Elemere, Malete.
The police, in their FIR, said Abdulrahman and the four others belong to the same occult group and confessed to robbing and killing the lady for ritual purposes.
