By Mayowa Olumuyiwa
An Ondo State High Court sitting in Akure has sentenced a Pastor, Kolawole Samson, to death by hanging for killing one middle-aged man, Ayo Olaniyi, in a village near Okeigbo area of the state.
KaftanPost correspondent gathered that the presiding Judge, Justice Ademola Bola, held that Pastor Kolawole was guilty of inflicting injury on the deceased’s head with a cutlass at Gberinlegi village, via Okeigbo, which later led to his death at the hospital.
According to the report, the state Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, represented by two government lawyers, Barristers Olusegun Akeredolu and Omotola Ologun, had earlier told the court that the pastor on the 3rd of March, 2016, inflicted deep cut injury on the head of late Ayo Olaniyi when he went to hunt for frogs with his three other friends at a fish pond owned by the convict at the said village, near Okeigbo.
The lawyers therefore, argued that the offence contrary to Section 316 is punishable under Section 319 of the Criminal Code, Cap 37, Laws of Ondo State (2006).
Consequently, the accused person had claimed he was not guilty of the offence but in his judgement delivered on Thursday, May 28, Justice Ademola Bola, ruled that all evidence adduced before the court during the trial in the last four years, showed that Pastor Kolawole was guilty of killing Olaniyi.
The Judge however, held that the culprit, Pastor Samson Kolawole, should die by hanging.
