Twelve of the twenty-five students from Ajayi Crowther University in Oyo who had been charged with murder before an Iyaganku Chief Magistrates’ Court in the state capital of Oyo, Ibadan, were released on Monday.
25 pupils from the school were arraigned and charged with carelessness, murder, and conspiracy on June 5.
The students were placed under remand in an Ibadan correctional facility by Chief Magistrate Mrs. Olabisi Ogunkanmi, pending the resolution of legal counsel.
Kehinde Martins, Samuel Okorie, Mustapha Khalid, Yusuf Adeniran, Joseph Areoye, Iyanuoluwa Oyelakin, Obaloluwa Olalekan, Emmanuel Adejumobi, John Daudu, Moses Abiola, Hammad Tijani, and David Kolawole are the twelve students that were released from their courses.
While releasing them, Ogunkanmi said that the legal counsel had concluded and recommended against charging any of the 12 pupils because there was insufficient evidence to connect any of them to the alleged acts.
Femi Oladoye, one of the 25 defendants and a university security guard who was previously accused of neglecting her duties, was also given bail in the amount of N250,000 along with two sureties in the same amount.
After that, Ogunkanmi adjourned the matter until July 8 for further consideration.
The offenders committed the acts at the aforementioned university on May 24 at around nine o’clock in the evening, according to what the prosecutor, CSP Funke Fawole, had earlier told the court.
According to Fawole, the defendants beat Jefry Akro, a 22-year-old university student, with planks and electrical wire, causing his wrongful death.
However, she claimed Oladoye, a security guard, was powerless to stop the enraged students from beating Akro to death.
According to her, the offences were under Oyo State’s 2000 Criminal Laws, Sections 516, 515, and 324.
