Ayomide Adeleye, who allegedly murd3red his church member in Ikorodu is in prison custody, police clarify
The police in Lagos State Police have clarified that Ayomide Adeleye, who confessed to killing Christianah Idowu, his friend and church member, has been charged with murder and remains in prison custody for the offence.
The Public Relations Officer of the Lagos Police Command, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, made the clarification in response to reports suggesting that Adeleye had been released.
Hundeyin wrote in a statement, “We can confirm that Ayomide Adeleye was charged with murder and was remanded for the same offence.
“It is also a fact that another person bearing the same name was remanded for a different offence and released in April 2024, long before the Ayomide we are talking about committed his offence.
“An outfit that prides itself on investigation should live up to its name. Relying on ‘sources’ rather than the spokesperson of the Correctional Service would land you in this kind of misinformation.”
Adeleye, a 200-level Philosophy student at Olabisi Onabanjo University confessed in September to killing Idowu, a 300-level student at the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Ogun State.
On November 5, Adeleye appeared before Magistrate Seyi Omodara at the Ogba Magistrate Court.
The magistrate issued a remand warrant, allowing the police to detain him at the Ikoyi Correctional Center pending advice from the Directorate of Public Prosecutions.
