Painter, Olaniyi Abegunde, sentenced to death for killing evangelist, Grace Ajibola, after discovering N2m in her account

Painter sentenced to d£ath for k#lling evangelist after discovering N2m in her account 

A 37- year-old painter, Olaniyi Abegunde, has been sentenced to d£ath by hanging for the m¥rder of a 69-year-old woman, Grace Ajibola, in Oyo State.  

 

Late Ajibola, an evangelist with the Christ Apostolic Church (CAC), Oke Imole, Agbeni, Ibadan, was k#lled few weeks to her 70th birthday in her home on Tuesday, March 17, 2020.

 

Justice K. B. Olawoyin, of the Oyo State Fiat Court 3, sitting in Iyaganku, Ibadan, on Thursday, March 16, 2023, found Olaniyi guilty of the two counts of armed robbery and m¥rder and convicted him on the two charges. In his judgement, Justice Olawoyin told counsels that since the charges border on capital offences, there would not be a need for allocates from counsels.

And for each count charge, he had sentenced Olaniyi to “d£ath by h@nging by the neck till d£@th or by lethal inj£ction.” The court had held that the prosecution led by Mrs K.K Oloso – Olayiwola, Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions, at the Oyo State Ministry of Justice and S. A Osuolale, had proved their case beyond reasonable doubt that Olaniyi committed the alleged offences, adding that the testimony of the five prosecution witnesses, including Dr Clement Abu Okolo, the pathologist from the University College Hospital, who conducted an autopsy on the late evangelist matches and aligns with the testimony of the defendant himself and that of his two other witnesses. (cont’d on next slide)