OAU student: Court denies Ramon Adedoyin bail

A Federal High Court in Abuja has declined the request for bail made by hotelier Ramon Adedoyin in the case involving the death of a postgraduate student of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) Timothy Adegoke.

Adedoyin had in an ex-parte motion filed along with a fundamental rights enforcement suit prayed the court to admit him to bail pending the conclusion of an investigation by the police or pending the determination of his fundamental rights suit.

Alternatively, he asked to be allowed access to quality medical facilities of his choice pending the conclusion of the police investigation and his possible arraignment.

Adedoyin was arrested on November 15 after the police established that Mr Adegoke lodged in the former’s Hilton Hotel in Osun before going missing.

In a supporting affidavit, Segun Aworinde, who described himself as Adedoyin’s younger brother, said, “Despite the health situation of the applicant and notwithstanding the absence of any charge pending against him, the respondent directed his officers to transfer the applicant from the custody of the Police in Osogbo to its Intelligence Response Team (IRT), Abuja where the applicant is currently being detained.

“I know as a fact that the applicant, a chieftaincy title holder in Ile-Ife, is not a flight risk having established one university and one polytechnic in Osun State, with several other investments all over the country and the applicant is ready and withing to stand his trial at all material times if the respondent eventually establishes a prima facie case against him.”

After listening to Adedoyin’s lawyer Kunle Adegoke, Justice Inyang Ekwo declined to grant any of the prayers.

Instead, he ordered Adedoyin to serve the motion and other processes in the case on the sole respondent, the inspector general of police (IGP), and adjourned till December 9 for hearing.