The Oyo Situation Prime Court docket sitting in Ibadan, on Friday, admitted the 12 suspected killers of an undergraduate scholar of Ajayi Crowther College, Jeffrey Akro to bail with sum of N5m and two sureties each and every in like sum and the case is adjourned until Friday, February 21, 2025.
The PUNCH experiences that the suspects had pleaded no longer responsible to a two-count fee when the case was once discussed for listening to.
Their pleas and oral utility weren’t taken throughout the terminating sitting.
Justice Ladiran Akintola, on the other hand, granted bail to the suspects with a sum of N5m time their oldsters will be on one?s feet as surgical procedures.
The Court docket in its ruling ordered that, “Each of the 1st-12th defendant is hereby admitted to bail in the sum of N5m with two surgeries each one of whom must be a biological parent of the applicant/defendant.”
In a sideline, the previous Lawyer Normal and Commissioner for Justice, Delta Situation, and Suggest to the Prosecutor, Victor Otomiewo stated, “Probably the most remarkable factor is the pronouncement and what each and every attorney is aware of is that the granting of bail isn’t a declaration of innocence or acquittal.
“The re-trial has been adjourned until February 21, 2025. If we’re not able to unravel the subject on that moment, the trial will go accordingly.
“With the pronouncement of the Judge and his conduct of the trial so far, everybody will go home and see that Justice, real justice not abstract justice has been served.”
Additionally in his remark, Suggest to the seventh defendant, Wole Efunnuga stated, “The Pass judgement on regarded on the factor holistically and made it some extent of accountability to hunt the opinion of the Prosecution suggest to invite if the verdict is of the suggest.
“My learned counsel used his discretion, and the ruling represented the views of all the parties involved.”