FADIPE’S KILLER CAN ESCAPE DEATH

FADIPE’S KILLER CAN ESCAPE DEATH

BY ABDULMUMINI ADEKU.Believe it or not,Mr Seun Oladapo ,the killer of Kunle Fadipe may not die of any hangman's noose despite the judicial judgement against him.

Feelers as at press time suggests to The News Office Desk of Paedia Express Multimedia Group in Lagos,Nigeria that the alleged killer of Lagos lawyer,Barrister Kunle Alexander Fadipe can actually escape death  by hanging as ordered by the High Court’s seating in Lagos,Nigeria which recently delivered its judgement on the case. Justice Oluwatoyin Ipaye of the Lagos High Court, Ikeja, sentenced Oladapo to death by hanging for killing the lawyer. The judge found the convicted person guilty of a five-count ...

A source told this reporter that he sees the case going as far as The Supreme Court of Nigeria ,from where it will be left for the Governor of Lagos state to assent his signature.

The source explained that of all the state Governors ,only Former Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo state had signed a dead row documentation as all the other Governors for one reason or the other had refused to do so as he cited the case of Reverend King.

The source recalled a prisoner who was to die but served at least 25 years of jail term awaiting  his execution but was eventually freed and this and this was what angered the people as they killed him the following week after he rejoined his family.

It was gathered by this reporter that the dead row inmate had been killed by irate neighbors because they could not forgive him for his involvement in rituals more than 25 years before.

In a related issue ,it was also learnt that the age of the alleged killer of Barrister Fadipe ,Seun Oladapo was not written in the charge sheet initially but this would appear to have been laid to rest as it was seen as 27 in virtually all the newspapers that reported the issue when the killer was sentenced recently.

When this reporter queried the source over what looked like a misinformation ,he said that he was sure that the issue may have been resolved in court during litigation but that he did over hear Fadipe’s wife tell a  family friend of the age issue.

It would appear that if the age was not included ,this may have given the defendant’s lawyer the opportunity to present a water tight alibi which will have made the murderer to escape been nailed to the gallows.

A source had told this reporter that he suspected that the assassin will be called a juvenile and therefore below 18 years  and as such will not be liable to punishment and then left off the hook.

The source pointed out that he would not have believed that this was happening if he had not heard it from the deceased ‘s wife recently during a brief encounter.

The source added that in the course of explanation , Mrs Kemi Fadipe was almost in a state of tears as she could not understand why her husband’s killer was been given a royal treatment in prison while awaiting sentencing despite the full knowledge of what he did to her husband by all.

It would be recalled that the death of the deceased led to a chain of death within the Fadipe inner circle as both his mother-in-law and his mother died almost one after the other leading to a huge but colossal gap in the family of the Fadipe’s at the time.

In a related issue,Mrs Kemi Fadipe ,wife of the deceased human rights lawyer ,Kunle Fadipe told The News Office Desk of the Paedia Express Multimedia Group in Lagos,Nigeria in her office that the case has already being concluded and that she and the rest members of her family were expecting the judgement even before the sentencing with a lot of optimism  but she did not know why there was a delay but less than 48 hours after this conversation the judgement was served.

She hinted in her response that the “age” was omitted initially in the charge sheet but nonetheless affirmed that it was never going to affect the quality of case that the petitioner had presented over the murder of her late husband as the age issue was not even given any form of mention at the trials to the best of her knowledge.