Police Dismiss Reports of Ayomide Adeleye’s Release, Confirm Custody

The Lagos State Police Command has confirmed that Ayomide Adeleye, who confessed to the murder of his friend and neighbor, Christianah Idowu, has been charged with murder and remains in custody.

This clarification was issued by the state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, following reports suggesting that Adeleye was not being held in any Lagos correctional facility.

In his statement, Hundeyin said, “We can confirm that Ayomide Adeleye was charged with murder and was remanded for the same offence.

“It is also a fact that another person bearing the same name was remanded for a different offence and released in April 2024, long before the Ayomide we are talking about committed his offence.

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“An outfit that prides itself on investigation should live up to its name. Relying on ‘sources’ rather than the spokesperson of the Correctional Service would land you in this kind of misinformation.”

Adeleye, a 200-level Philosophy student at Olabisi Onabanjo University, confessed in September to killing Idowu, a 300-level student at the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Ogun State.

On November 5, he was arraigned before Magistrate Seyi Omodara at the Ogba Magistrate Court, where a remand warrant was issued, allowing the police to detain him at the Ikoyi Correctional Center pending advice from the Directorate of Public Prosecutions.