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Court sentences killers of Fasoranti’s daughter to death by hanging

Court sentences killers of Fasoranti’s daughter to death by hanging

An Ondo State High Court has sentenced three out of four suspected killers of the 58-year-old daughter of the national leader of the Yoruba socio-political group, Mrs Funke Olakunri, to death by hanging.

They include Muhammed Shehu Usman, Adamu Adamu and Lawal Mazaje.

The three suspects were convicted by Justice Williams Olamide for conspiracy to murder, kidnapping and armed robbery.

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Late Funke Olakunri

The court, however, discharged and acquitted the fourth defendant, Auwalu Abubakar, 25, for conspiracy.

Recall that the police also alleged that the suspects also murdered  one Ogunbiyi Matthew aged 65 and also kidnapped one Gerald Igboayaka the same day Funke Olakunri was murdered along Ore-ljebu Ode Expressway on July 12, 2019.

Late Mrs Olakunrin’s father, Pa Reuben Fasoranti, earlier said he had to “pulls strings” for his daughter’s murder to be investigated, as he had been told nothing would happen to the killers.

Pa Fasoranti said this in an interview with Vanguard, when asked to comment on repeated calls for restructuring to solve the many problems in the country.

He said “What I think is necessary is for us to come together and chart a way forward. There are corruption and killings here and there.

“My daughter was murdered and there seem to be some people who are protected.”

Asked what he meant by some people being protected, the statesman said: “But for the fact that we pulled some strings, that murder would have gone without any action taken.

“The authorities were not keen on investigating, until we cried out and pulled some strings, otherwise nothing would have happened.

“When I cried out and demanded that something should be done, the powers-that-be were reluctant and they told me that nothing would happen.

“Nothing would have happened and she would have been killed in vain. There are some protected people and sacred cows; when atrocities are committed nothing happens to them.

“In a situation like that, the citizens are not safe, they are not satisfied. They are disgruntled and they begin to wonder where to go. We have no other country, but Nigeria”, he said back then.

 

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