A f i v
e – m e m b e r panel of the Supreme Court yesterday okayed death by hanging
for a ritualist, one Akinola Olatunbosun, who, 10 years ago, stole and
dismembered a three-month old baby, Joy Faith Olubodun, for ritual purposes.
That
was after the apex court dismissed his appeal seeking reversal of the death
verdict earlier passed on her by the lower courts. Justice Bode Rhodes- Vivour
who delivered the lead judgment in the case held that the concurrent findings
of the two lower courts passing death sentence on Akinola were faultless and
should not be disturbed.
His
words: “The appellant killed because he is a ritualist. He dismembered the body
of Faith Joy Olubodun, a three-month old baby. He gorged out her eyes, slit the
neck and disemboweled the child in the most harrowing way.
“The
evidence against the appellant is one way and he agrees with it. It justifies
the death sentence passed on him by Jegede J of an Ekiti High Court, affirmed
by the Court of Appeal and finally affirmed now by this court.
“If ever
there was a criminal appeal completely devoid of any merit whatsoever, this one
scores very high marks,” Justice Rhodes- Vivour held. Four other justices on
the panel took turn to agree with the lead judgment.
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