By Ola Ajayi

Ibadan—Six suspects, who were arrested in connection with the killing of Colonel Ekok Anthony Okeyin, Commandant of Command Day Secondary School, Owode, Apata area of Ibadan last year, have been remanded in prison custody.

The suspects were remanded in Agodi Prison custody after their arraignment before the Iyaganku Chief Magistrate’s Court, Ibadan, yesterday.

The Chief Magistrate, Mrs Risikat Ebeloku-Mustapha, ordered that the six accused persons be remanded at Agodi Prison, pending legal advice from the State Director of Public Prosecutions, DPP.

The pleas of the six accused persons were not taken and the case was adjourned till March 28.

Earlier, the prosecutor, Inspector Musiliu Fatola, had told the court that the defendants allegedly robbed and killed the military officer on December 11, 2016, in the school.

Fatola also said the suspects took Okeyin’s Samsung X4 cell phone.

He said: “The suspects allegedly caused the death of one Colonel Ekok Okeyin, 52, by throwing him from upstairs to the ground floor, leading to his death.”

Fatola said the offences contravened Sections 316, 324 and 401 and punishable under Sections 319 and 402 (1) of the Criminal Code Cap 38, Vol. II Laws of Oyo State, 2000.