Wife, son’s killer arraigned in court, remanded in prison

A 29-year-old bricklayer, Muyideen Opeyemi Arowolo, who was arrested last Friday in connection with setting his wife and son ablaze in their residence at Ita Baale, Labiran area of Ibadan, Oyo State, has been remanded in Agodi prisons, after he was arraigned in court on Thursday.
He was brought before Alhaja Sefia Oyediran at Magistrates’ Court 2, Iyaganku, Ibadan on a three-count charge of murder, murder and arson.
On a charge sheet with suit number MI/93C/2014, count one read: “that you, Arowolo Opeyemi Muyideen, on the 26th Dec, 2013 at about 10.30p.m. at Ita Baale area, Ibadan, in the Ibadan magisterial district, did cause the death of one Felicia Opeyemi by setting  her ablaze and thereby committed an offence contrary to section 216 and punishable under section 319 of the criminal code cap 38 volume 2, laws of Oyo State Nigeria, 2000.”
On count two, Muyideen was accused of, on the same date, time and place, causing “the death of one Gbolahan Opeyemi by setting him ablaze and thereby committed an offence contrary to section 216 and punishable under section 319 of the criminal code cap 38 volume 2, laws of Oyo State, Nigeria, 2000.”
Count three also read “that you Arowolo Opeyemi Muyideen, on the same date time and place, in the aforementioned magisterial district did set on fire a one-storey building at Labiran area, Ita Baale, occupied by the two deceased, and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under section 443 of the criminal cap volume 2, at the Ibadan magisterial district.”
The plea of the accused was not taken and the magistrate, Alhaja Oyediran, ordered that he should be remanded in the prison, while the case was adjourned till February 10 for further hearing.
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