Sunday Clement has been ordered to remain in jail detention by an Ondo State Chief Magistrate Court in Akure following the alleged murder of Taye Alatoye, a farmer.
The state police command’s personnel detained the 24-year-old laborer defendant after the incident, who was then taken to court and charged with one count of murder.
In the state’s Idanre Local Government Area, the defendant was accused of killing the victim as he was making his way to a farm in the Ofosu village.
Alatoye and Clement were reportedly on their way to the farm that fatal day when the perpetrator abruptly stepped back, pulled out his sharpened cutlass, and hacked the victim on the neck, leaving his head hanging.
The defendant allegedly committed the crime in Baba Odun Camp, Ofosu in the state’s Odigbo Local Government Area on September 4, 2023, at 2:30 p.m., according to the prosecution, Mary Adebayo.
Sections 316 and 319 of the Criminal Code Law, Cap. 37 Vol. II Law of Ondo State, 2006, according to her, were violated by the crime committed.
Adebayo asked the court to hold the defendant at Olokuta Correctional Center in Akure while it awaited the Director of Public Prosecutions’ advice.
Folasade Aduroja, the Chief Magistrate, granted the prosecutor’s motion in her decision, ordered the defendant to be kept in custody, and also ordered that a duplicate copy of the case file be forwarded to the DPP for consultation. She put the matter on hold until November 28, 2023.
The defendant claimed that he was under the influence of heavy narcotics when he did the conduct and begged for pardon.
We met on the way as we were both heading in the same direction, he added. The urge to chop off Taye’s head just took over me. I’m unable to actually say what caused it. I believe it was the ‘Ice’ I drank in the hot sun.