An artisan, Samarola Musa, is facing a homicide charge at a
Federal Capital Territory High Court, Gwagwalada, for allegedly beaten his
apprentice, Ademola Adeshina, to death for his refusal to stop dating a lady in
the Lugbe area of Abuja.
Musa is believed to have had a homosexual relationship with
the 24-year-old man. The report also showed that the furniture maker had
sodomised his apprentice before his death in May 2017.
It was learnt that an autopsy indicated that Ademola died as
a result of the beating he received from Musa.
Musa, 42, in his statement to the police, said he slapped
the deceased after he caught him having sex with the lady, identified simply as
Precious, in his workshop, claiming that Ademola died of malaria a week after
the incident.
But Ademola’s father, Okuneye, faulted Musa’s claims,
stressing that the son died from the beatings he received from the former
bouncer, who he described as a huge man.
He told PUNCH that Musa had once informed him
that Ademola was dating a lady he did not approve of, adding that he warned the
deceased to stop going out with the lady.
The bereaved father said his son called him on May 3, two
days before his death that he had malaria, adding that he visited him at
the workshop and found him working.
“About 48 hours after, I got a text message from Musa asking
me to call him back urgently. I did and he simply told me that my son had
passed away; I was shocked. He said he was at Asokoro General Hospital and when
I got there, I found my son lying in the back seat of his Honda Accord car with
his face against the glass window,” he said.
Okuneye said the accused informed him that his son died of
malaria and suggested that the body should be buried, but he insisted on
depositing it in a morgue.
The engineer explained that after returning home, he
received a call from Precious, who narrated to him how Musa beat his son to
death.
He said, “The girl said she witnessed the assault and when
she confronted Musa, he injured her in the leg. I asked if she was ready to
make a statement at the police station about it and she agreed.
“Musa was arrested and he admitted to beating my boy because
he was dating the girl. We did a post-mortem on the body and it showed that
Ademola suffered serious internal injury from the beating.
“The autopsy also showed that the boy was sodomised; it was
after this that we got to know that Musa is a well known homosexual in Lugbe
and its environs; he had been sleeping with my son and he killed him because he
was dating a woman.”
The accused was remanded in Kuje prisons by the court on
Monday, while the case was adjourned till November 20,2017.
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