Teacher kills 83-year-old man - After defrauding him N1.1m

Tunde Oyekola, Osogbo - 28.08.2009

A 34-year-old primary school teacher, Akinkunle Adebayo, who allegedly murdered an octogenarian after defrauding him of N1.1 million in Ilesa, Osun State, was on Thursday ordered to be remanded at the Federal Prison, Ilesa, by an Osogbo magistrates’ court.

Akinkunle was charged to court for alleged murder of Pa Olusola Akinyemi (83) on Sunday, August 23, at about 11am in Ilesa after being accused of defrauding the deceased.

The prosecution alleged that the teacher and others now at large took advantage of the old man’s illiteracy to defraud him of the amount. According to him, the deceased, who could neither read nor write, told the accused who was a tutor to his children to withdraw the sum of N200,000 but instead the accused wrote the cheque of N1,300,000.00. He gave the deceased N200,000 and pocketed the remaining amount.

The prosecution also alleged that the accused and others now at large threatened to kill the deceased son, Oludare Akinyemi, thereby committing an offence contrary to Section 323 of the criminal code cap 34, law, of Osun State, 2003.

The presiding magistrate, Adewunmi Makanjuola, ordered the accused to be remanded in prison custody pending his arraignment in state high court.

The case was adjourned till October 2 for mention. In another development, one Rasheed Babatunde Abdusalam was arraigned before the court for alleged stealing of one Nissan Bluebird car with registration number AJ 395LES, valued at 200,000 and cash sum of N15,000 belonging to one Araoye Abiodun.

I hope the death penalty is still being implemented to the fullest.

Again this is a problem with the way the banks work, why give people who can neither read nor write cheque books in the first place? There should be workable alternatives.