Lagos BRT Driver Remanded For ‘Murder, Rape’ Of Bamise Ayanwole

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(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court sitting in Lagos, on Friday ordered that a 47-year-old Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) driver, Andrew Ominnikoron, be remanded in Ikoyi Custodial center for alleged murder and rape of a 22-year-old girl, Oluwabamise Ayanwole.
Magistrate O.A. Salawu ordered that Ominnikoron be remanded for 30 days.
She held that Ominnikoron was to be remanded pending legal advice from the Lagos State Directorate of Public Prosecution (DPP).
The defendant is charged with conspiracy, murder, rape, and misconduct with regard to corpses.
The charge was read to the defendant but his plea was, however, not taken by the court.
Salawu adjourned the case until April 11 for DPP advice.
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 offense at 8p.m. on February 26, along Ajah-Oshodi expressway, on a Lagos State BRT bus with code number 257.
She said that Ominnikoron, who was on duty as a driver, raped Ayanwole, and pushed her out of the moving BRT bus.
The offense, she said, contravened the provisions of sections 411, 223, 260, and 165 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015 (Revised).
Section 223 stipulates the death penalty for the offense of murder, 260 provides for life imprisonment for rape, and 165 carries five years imprisonment for misconduct with regards to corpses.
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