An Akure Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday remanded a 33-year-old man, Oladipo Akintade, at the Olokuta Correctional Centre for allegedly stabbing his neighbour to death.
Earlier, the prosecutor, Insp Folashade Adeyemi, told the court that the defendant committed the alleged offence on Jan. 10, at Omifunfun, within the court’s jurisdiction.
According to him, the defendant had a misunderstanding with the victim, a 45-year-old Dole Akinrinola.
He said that the defendant stabbed the victim in his left rib.
The prosecutor said the victim was rushed to a clinic, but was pronounced dead on arrival.
According to Adeyemi, the offence contravene Section 319 of the Criminal Law of Ondo State, 2006.
Adeyemi had prayed the court to remand the defendant in a correctional centre.
