BY EVELYN USMAN & ONOZURE DANIA

IKEJA—AN Ikeja Chief Magistrate Court yesterday remanded five men, who allegedly murdered Sesan Ogunro, the marketing communications guru and Group Managing Director, Eminent Communications, last December, after robbing him of property valued at over N4.5 million.

The Chief Magistrate, Mrs Eniola Fabamwo, ordered that the accused be kept at Kirikiri Prisons, pending an advice from the Lagos State Director of Public Prosecutions.
The accused are Gbenga Ojo, 28; Sheriff Abolaji, 20; Yusuf Isiaka, 32; Michael Ayinde, 21; and Segun Asiye, 25.
They are facing a five-count charge of conspiracy, murder and armed robbery.

Earlier, the Prosecutor, ASP. Samson Ekikere, told the court that the accused with others at large, committed the offences at 8.00 p.m. on December 22, 2013 at  1, Jobifele Way,  Alausa, Ikeja.
He said the accused, armed with a pistol and other weapons, killed Ogunro.

Ekikere said the accused also robbed the deceased of a Toyota Yaris car with number plate, APP 120 AA, worth N2m, belonging to his wife, and they also snatched a Honda Odyssey space bus with number plate AAA 329 BA, valued at N2.5 million, property of one Mrs Adeoti Balogun.

Ekikere alleged that the accused robbed Balogun of her phones worth N40,000 and N10,000.
The offences, he noted, contravened Sections 1 (2) (a), (b) and 5 of the Robbery and Firearms (Special Provisions) Act, Laws of the Federation, 1990.

Fabamiwo adjourned the case until June 23 for mention.