Witness tells court how brother's corpse was found in locked-up metal storage drum

• Published date: 14 January 2023
• Publication title: Nigeria - The Nation

AProsecution Witness (PW) yesterday told an Ajaokuta High Court sitting in Lokoja, Kogi State that the corpse of his alleged murdered brother was found in a locked-up metal storage drum behind the house of his suspected killer.

Mr Taiye Ajayi, PW1, made this known while being led in testimony by a prosecuting Counsel, Mr Badama Kadiri, in a culpable Homicide case brought before Justice Hauwa Yusuf of Ajaokuta High Court.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the state ministry of justice charged Francis Julius and Abiodun Yusuf with three counts of criminal conspiracy, theft and culpable Homicide.

They were accused of conspiring and murdering Mr Kehinde Ajayi, 56, at Felele Quarters of Lokoja on July 24, 2022.

The police also alleged that they stole the deceased man's newly bought Toyota Sienna bus.

Ajayi, in his testimony, told the court that when his brother, Kehinde, was murdered, his wife raised the alarm and he immediately reported the matter to the police.

He said that it was in the cause of investigation that the police arrested Julius, who confessed that he killed his brother, saying the bus was with the second accused in Abuja.

'It was at that point that police asked him about the whereabouts of the corpse of my brother. They said that they buried him at the back of his house.

'The police then asked...