A Yaba Magis-trates' Court, yesterday, said a dry cleaner, 35-year-old Aderoju Ojelabi, who allegedly killed her day-old baby, had a case to answer in court.
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At the resumed hearing of the case, the Magistrate, Mrs S.K. Matepo, said: "A murder case has been established against the accused and consequently, her case will be transferred to a court of superior record."
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She said that advice from the state Directorate of Public Prosecutions, DPP, had established a prima facie case of unlawful killing against the accused.
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Consequently, Matepo ordered that the case file be transferred to the Lagos High Court for trial.
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Ojelabi was first arraigned on December 10, 2012, and charged with the wilful abandonment and murder of her child.
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At her arraignment, the court failed to take the plea of the accused, but ordered that she be remanded in prison custody pending legal advice from the Director of Public Prosecutions.
Of course that is what such mother should face for killing an innocent soul. Murder is never a wise and kind to do or engage in...
Strange things just keep happening in Nigeria everyday. Things one cannot understand. Too bad.