The Department of State Services, DSS has arraigned eight suspects in the rape and murder case of Miss
Blessing Olajide a 400 Level student of University of Ilorin.
The suspects, Akeeb Ismail, Oyeyemi Timilehin, Abdulkareem Shuaib, Kareem Rasheed, Lateef Rahman
including Daud Bashir, Akande Taiye and Ajala Moses are all facing an eleven count charge of conspiracy,
rape murder aiding and abetting, receiving of stolen property amongst others.
While the first, fourth and fifth accused persons had a defense counsel in Shina Ibiyemi, the sixth and
eighth persons had a counsel in Mr. L. O. Bello.
The trial was however was stalled because the three other accused persons did not have lawyers.
Two of them accepted the offer of the government to provide a counsel for them while the other said
he would source for legal service himself.
The trial judge, Justice I.A. Yusuf however adjourned the case till Tuesday, July 6 2021 and the suspects
remanded in prison custody.
