Huhuonline.com can dislcose that Magistrate O.A. Salawu of the Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court sitting in Lagos, on Friday sent 47-year-old Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) driver, Andrew Nice Ominnikoron to Ikoyi Custodial centre for alleged murder and rape of a 22-year-old girl, Oluwabamise Ayanwole.
Magistrate Salawu ordered that Ominnikoron be remanded for 30 days, adding that the accused was to be remanded pending legal advice from the Lagos State Directorate of Public Prosecution (DPP).
Mr Andrew Nice Ominnikoron was charged with conspiracy, murder, rape and misconduct with regards to corpses.The charge was read to the defendant but his plea was, however, not taken by the court.
Earlier, the Officer in charge of the Legal Department at the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) Panti, Mrs Yetunde Cardoso., said that Ominnikoron committed the offence at 8 p.m. on Feb. 26, along Ajah-Oshodi expressway, on a Lagos State BRT bus with code number 257.Adding that that Ominnikoron, who was on duty as a driver, raped Ayanwole, and pushed her out of the moving BRT bus.
The offence, she said, contravened the provisions of sections 411, 223, 260 and 165 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015 (Revised), but, section 223 stipulates a death penalty for the offence of murder, 260 provides for life imprisonment for rape and 165 carries five years imprisonment for misconduct with regards to corpses.
