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Police arraign pupil accused of killing schoolmate

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The police have arraigned an 18-year-old pupil, Saka Hammed, for allegedly killing his schoolmate, Saheed Jimoh, in the Amukoko area of Lagos State.

The police arraigned Hammed before an Ebute-Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, on one count of manslaughter.
According to Punch, Hammed and Jimoh were friends, and attended Gaskiya College.

While Hammed, who repeated a class, was in Senior Secondary School 2, Jimoh, who was a school prefect, was in SSS 3.

The two were said to have had a brawl outside the school gate after Hammed lied to Jimoh that a teacher was chasing them.

The suspect reportedly pushed the victim into the gutter, where he hit his chest against a concrete

He was said to have rushed him to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead by a doctor.

Hammed was later arrested by the police for the crime.

The charge read, “That you, Saka Hammed, aka Ejo, on November 4, 2015, at about 8am, at Gaskiya College gate, Amukoko, Lagos, in the Lagos Magisterial District, did unlawfully kill one Saheed Jimoh, aged 19 years, by pushing him into the gutter where he hit his chest on an iron rod and thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 221 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, Nigeria, 2011.”

The defendant pleaded not guilty to the charge.

The police, in a remand application brought before the court, said Hammed had confessed to the crime and was identified by witnesses.

The Investigating Police Officer from the State Department of Criminal Investigation said the police were awaiting legal advice from the Directorate of Public Prosecutions.

The Chief Magistrate, Mrs. A.F.O. Botoku, however, admitted the defendant to bail in the sum of N250,000 with two sureties in like sum.

The case was adjourned till January 18, 2016.

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