On Thursday, an Ogun State Magistrates’ Court in Isabo, Abeokuta, remanded in prison a couple, Kehinde Oladimeji, 43, and Adejumoke Raji, 35, for the alleged murder of a 22-year-old woman, Ife Adeh.
The defendants, who were charged with conspiracy and murder on two counts, lived on MKO Abiola Way in Abeokuta’s Leme neighborhood.
The defendants were remanded in prison after the Magistrate, I. O. Abudu, refused to accept their plea.
Abudu stated that both the husband and wife should be remanded in the Oba and Ibara detention centers pending legal advice from the Ogun State Directorate of Public Prosecutions.
She adjourned the case till April 29 for mention.
Earlier, the police prosecutor, Oluwatosin Jackson, told the court that the defendants committed the offence on January 12, 2022 at their house.
Jackson said the couple conspired and murdered Adeh, who was a close friend of Adejumoke.
She said Adejumoke invited the deceased (her friend) to her house and prepared noodles with a sleeping substance.
The prosecutor explained that after the deceased slept off, Adejumoke allegedly strangled her, butchered her body, and sold her head for N70,000 to a ritualist at Ibadan, Oyo State.