The family of the owner of Hilton Hotel, Ile-Ife, Ramon Adedoyin, has demanded that he and others accused in the case of Timothy Adegoke, be tried in Osun State and not Abuja.
Adegoke was the postgraduate student of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, who was buried in a shallow grave after his death in the hotel.
According to them, charging Adedoyin and the other accused to an Abuja court as the police have done contravenes jurisdiction demands.
They said in a letter on Thursday: “We are of the firm view that since none of the elements of the offence to be tried by the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory happened or took place in the Federal Capital Territory, we shall be demanding that the case be tried at the High Court of Osun State being the court with the requisite jurisdiction to try the case.
“There is nothing in Section 93 (1) and (2) of the Administration Of Criminal Justice Act 2015 that can make the Police to act otherwise.
“Flowing from the foregoing we want to implore you sir, to use your good office to ensure that this case is prosecuted in the appropriate court, which is the High Court of Justice, Osun State.”
