Probe Police, LG’s Roles In Burial Of OAU Student, Adedoyin’s Lawyer Tells CP
A lawyer, Mr Abiodun Williams, who is the counsel for the Chairman of Hilton Hotel and Resorts, Chief Ramon Adegoke has called on the Osun State Police Command to investigate a rumour that the corpse of the OAU Master’s Student, Timothy Adegoke, was buried by the workers of Ife Central Local Government Area.
The lawyer made this appeal to the police in a petition written to the Commissioner of Police in the state and dated November 26. A copy of which was made available to journalists on Saturday night.
The counsel said there was a rumour that some persons found the corpse of Adegoke where it was allegedly dumped and called the attention of those who have businesses around the area to it.
The artisans and others, he said, went and reported their strange discovery to the police and the local government.
He said the Public Health Department in the council reportedly alerted the police and the police granted them the approval to bury the corpse
The suspects arrested in connection with the death of the student were reported to have said the Managing Director of the Hotel, Raheem Adedotun, supervised the evacuation of the corpse from the hotel and the dumping of the same in the bush.
The lawyer to Adedoyin who is in police detention said the latest discovery, if found to be true, would further assist pathologists to unravel the cause of death of the student.
The petition read, ” You will recall that some of the suspects in your custody allegedly confessed to dumping the corpse of late Mr. Timothy Adegoke in the bush, they did not admit to burying him.