Adebayo Adenrele
An High court, sitting in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State capital has sentenced one Akinyemi Ojo, 43 to life imprisonment for attempted murder.
Ojo was arraigned before Justice Blessing Ajileye on 25th January, 2023 on one count charge bordering on attempted murder.
According to the charge, Ojo on Dec. 5, 2022 in Aramoko -Ekiti attempted to murder one David Faith by matcheting her, an offence that is contrary to Section 241 of the Criminal Law of Ekiti State, 2021.
In her testimony before the court, the victim said, “I was going to my farm on that day, I met the defendant on the way and we exchanged pleasantry, I later branched to my farm to pluck some okro, after sometime, I saw the defendant coming towards where I was, holding a cutlass, I suspected his movement to be of evil agenda, I then took to my heels, he was chasing me with cutlass and met me where I fell.
“He gave me matchet cuts all over my body and I became unconscious, I did not see him again when I regained little consciousness, I crawled to the main road where some passersby took me to the General Hospital, Aramoko -Ekiti, I did not know my offence or why he decided to kill me” she concluded.
To proof his case, the prosecutor, Taiwo Ajibulu-Ariyo, called five witnesses and tendered defendant and victims’ statements, cutlass and pictures of the victim as exhibits while the defendant spoke in his own defence through his lawyer and called no witness.
In his judgment, Justice Ajileye said, “In this instant case, I found that the defendant matchetted the victim and degree of injury inflicted on her was capable of causing her death but for the intervening efforts of the passersby who saw her in the pool of blood.
“The defendant is hereby convicted as charged in line with Section 241 of the Criminal Laws of Ekiti State, he is accordingly sentenced to life imprisonment” the judge ruled