The long-awaited justice has finally been served as the killer of Oluwabamise Ayanwola, a 22-year-old girl murdered by a Lagos Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) driver, Andrew Ominikoron, was on Friday sentenced to death by hanging.
Justice Sherifat Sonaike of the Lagos State High Court, sitting at the Tafawa Balewa Square Annexe, handed down the verdict.
Persecondnews had reported that Bamise (Oluwabamise), a young Nigerian unmarried woman who was abducted after boarding a BRT in Lagos on March 1, 2022, was found dead nine days later.
Ominikoron was arraigned on a five-count charge bordering on murder, conspiracy, and rape, in connection with the girl’s death, as well as the sexual assault of Dr. Anosike Victoria and the rape of Maryland Ojiezelu.
He had pleaded not guilty to all the charges.
In her judgment delivered on Friday, Justice Sonaike held that the Lagos State Government had successfully proved its case beyond reasonable doubt.
She declared: “For the death of Oluwabamise Ayanwola, you will be hanged by the neck until you are dead. May God have mercy on your soul.
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