OAU Student’s Murder: Court Sentences Hilton Hotel Receptionist To Correctional Centre

VOICE AIR MEDIA News Update

AN Osun State High Court sitting in Osogbo has presided over by Justice Oyebola Adepele-Ojo on Wednesday, May 31, 2023 sentenced one of the Receptionists, Adesola Adedeji to two years imprisonment.

VOICE AIR MEDIA gathered that Adesola, the receptionist that received late Timothy Adegoke When he Lodged in the Hilton Honours Hotel, Ile-Ife in the evening of November 6th, 2021.

She was said to have fabricated another receipt for the purpose of concealing traces of Adegoke’s lodgement at the hotel.

However, the prison term will start counting from the day she was in detention. Having calculated the number of year, months and days she has spent in detention, she has only 10 more days for her to be free.

Recalled that Prosecutor Counsel, Fatimah from the Falana Adebayo Chambers and the Defence Counsel, Akpan Okon, begged the Court to be lenient with her, since she was not linked to the death of the deceased and for the fact that she was a first time offender.

After the pronouncement, the people in the courtroom went up in jubilation and thanking God for Adedeji Adesola for her unusual grace of God.

Justice Adepele-Ojo commended the Prosecuting Counsel, Fatimah for coming to the rescue of Adesola at the time it was needed most in her life. This generated a loud ovation and a round of applause for Fatimah and Justice Adepele-Ojo.

Timothy Adegoke was an MBA-EXECUTIVE student at the Obafemi Awolowo University ( OAU) . He left Abuja on November 5, 2021 to sit for his last examination in the University.

The deceased had lodged at Hilton Honours Hotel owned by Rahman Adedoyin, where he allegedly lost his life and declared missing on November 7, 2021, after his classmates discovered that he did not show up in class at Moro Distance Learning Centre, the venue of the school.
Also, the Police investigation revealed that he had told his wife of his plans to check into the hotel in Ile-Ife, where he usually stayed whenever he arrived in the town.

At the beginning of investigation by the Police, the hotel had denied that the deceased lodged at their facility before some evidence on payment transactions was discovered.

The Court, however freed three of the hotel workers, Magdalena Chiefuna, Oluwole, Lawrence and Adebayo Kunle.

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