A Yaba Magistrate’s Court in
Lagos on Monday held that a
35-year-old Medical Doctor,
Edeye Monday, had a case to
answer over his alleged murder
of a 22-year-old pregnant
woman, Tolani Aderoju.
The Police Prosecutor, Godwin
Anyanwun, while arraigning Mr.
Monday in court on July 31,
2012, said the accused on May
29, 2012, injected Ms. Aderoju
with some unknown drugs,
while attempting to abort her
pregnancy.
The prosecutor had told the
court that Ms. Aderoju’s
mother, in her complaint, said
her daughter had informed her
that she was pregnant for one
Mufutau Alonge.
She said that Mr. Alonge had
taken her daughter to
Monday’s private clinic for an
abortion.
According to the prosecutor,
the accused, after injecting Ms.
Aderoju with drugs, but could
not terminate the pregnancy,
rushed her to another hospital,
where she died.
Mr. Anyanwun, a police
inspector, said that the offence
contravened Section 221 of the
Criminal Law of Lagos State,
2011, and that the penalty was
the death sentence.
But the court adjourned the
matter till Nov. 25 to await the
advice of the State Director of
Public Prosecution’s (DPP) on
the matter, while it ordered that
the accused be remanded in
prison custody.
At the resumed hearing of the
case on Monday, the
Magistrate, Adekorede Ajibade,
said: “a murder case has been
established against the
accused.”
“Consequently, his case will be
transferred to a court of
superior record”.
She said that legal advice from
the DPP had established a
prima facie case of unlawful
killing against the accused.
Ms. Ajibade consequently
ordered that the case file be
transferred to the High Court,
for trial.
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