An Iyaganku Magistrates’ Court in Ibadan, Oyo State, remanded a 45-year-old man identified as Adegoke Olaoluwa, also known as a ‘fake doctor,’ for the alleged murder of his patient, Adekunle Badmus, aged 45.
Olaoluwa, who hails from the Idi-Aro area of Ibadan, is facing a charge of murder. The Magistrate, A.T. Oyediji, presiding over the case, did not take the defendant’s plea.
Instead, the magistrate ordered that Olaoluwa be remanded in the Agodi Correctional Centre in Ibadan, pending legal advice from the state Directorate of Public Prosecution.
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According to the Police Prosecutor, Inspector Opeyemi Olagunju, the defendant allegedly caused the death of Badmus on Tuesday, February 20, around 10:00 am, at Mercy Clinic and Maternity, Idi-Aro, Ibadan.
Olagunju further explained that the defendant administered saline drugs to the patient without lawful justification.
The alleged offence is said to contravene Section 316 and is punishable under Sections 319 and 484 of the Criminal Code, Laws of Oyo State, 2000.
Section 484 prescribes three years imprisonment for an offender, while Section 319 carries a penalty of death sentence.
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