Crime
Bamise: Court remands BRT driver for alleged murder, rape
A Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court sitting in Lagos, on Friday, ordered that a 47-year-old Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) driver, Andrew Ominnikoron, be remanded in Ikoyi Custodial Centre for alleged murder and rape of a 22-year-old girl, Oluwabamise Ayanwole.
Magistrate O.A. Salawu ordered that Ominnikoron be remanded for 30 days.
She held that Ominnikoron was to be remanded pending legal advice from the Lagos State Directorate of Public Prosecution (DPP).
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the defendant is charged with conspiracy, murder, rape and misconduct with regards to corpses.
Salawu adjourned the case until April 11 for DPP advice.
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Earlier, the Officer in charge of the Legal Department at the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) Panti, Mrs Yetunde Cardoso, said that Ominnikoron committed the offence at 8 p.m. on Feb. 26, along Ajah-Oshodi expressway, on a Lagos State BRT bus with code number 257.
She said that Ominnikoron, who was on duty as a driver, raped Ayanwole, and pushed her out of the moving BRT bus.
The offence, she said, contravened the provisions of sections 411, 223, 260 and 165 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015 (Revised).
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