By our reporter| Rahman Adedoyin, the owner of Hilton Hotels and Resort, Ile-Ife and six other suspects in prison over the death of Timothy Adegoke were on Thursday remanded at the Ilesa correctional facility by an Osun state high court.
Oyebola Adepele-Ojo, the presiding judge, gave the order on Thursday during the arraignment of the suspects.
The suspects include Adegoke, Adedeji Adesola, Magdalene Chiefuna, Adeniyi Aderogba, Oluwale Lawrence, Oyetunde Kazeem, and Adebayo Kunle.
Adegoke, a postgraduate student of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), was said to have traveled from Abuja to write an exam at a distance learning centre in Moro, Osun state on November 5 and was found dead after being declared missing for two days.
The police had arrested Adedoyin and the six suspects said to be staff members of his hotel.
The suspects are facing an 11-count charge bordering on conspiracy and murder among others — although they all pleaded not guilty to the charges.
During the court hearing, the counsel representing the suspects moved applications for bail for the first to sixth defendants.
The prosecutor, however, opposed the bail applications.
The judge in her ruling adjourned the case to Friday to hear the bail application while the trial is expected to resume fully next Monday.
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