By: Ali Muhammad Rabiu
Kwara state High Court, President over by Justice Hannah Ajayi has fixed May 12 this year for continuation of hearing in a case Instituted against AbdulRahman Bello and Four others over alleged Murder of a final year student of College of Education Ilorin Hafsoh Lawal.
AbdulRahman Bello, Ahmed Abdulwasiu, Suleiman Muhydeen, Jamiu Uthman and AbdulRahman Jamiu are the defendants in the case and all pleaded not guilty to the charges preferred against them.
They were accused of criminal conspiracy, culpable homicide and illegal possession of human parts while the first defendant, AbdulRahman Bello was in addition accused of raping the deceased.
Led in evidence by the Prosecution Counsel,the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice in Kwara state,Mr Senior Ibrahim ,a witness , Assistant Superintendent of Police Yusuf Dauda and Inspector Muhammed Kamaldeen tendered items recovered from the suspects including two human palms and other body parts,
They also tendered a container of human blood, an axe, a cutlass, a table, a wooden box of black soap, four mobile phones, a sack of charms and a notebook of charms, all admitted as exhibits by the court.
In his evidence before the court,father of the late Hafsoh Lawal, Mr Ibrahim Lawal narrated how his daughter went missing and her mobile phone was tracked before the the prime suspect, AbdulRahman Bello was arrested.
He recounted how the prime suspect, AbdulRahman Bello, at the Oja Oba police station, Ilorin allegedly confessed to killing and dismembering the body of his daughter.
In her own evidence in chief the late Hafsoh’s friend, Falilat Abdulafeez also narrated how Hafsoh left the naming ceremony after receiving a call without telling her friends her destination.
