Gospel singer bags death sentence for allegedly killing girlfriend
…Narrates reason for alleged killing
CITIZENS COMPASS—A 32-year-old Gospel singer, Oluwatimileyin Ajayi, has been sentenced to death by hanging following the murder of a 24-year-old member of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Salome Adaidu.
The High Court in Lafia, Nasarawa State, delivered the judgement on Thursday.
Justice Simon Aboki, who handed down the judgment, found Ajayi guilty of killing and dismembering Adaidu.
He had been charged with one count of culpable homicide contrary to Section 221 of the Penal Code of Northern Nigeria and punishable by death.
Timilehin was apprehended for the alleged murder of his alleged girlfriend, Adaidu, a 24-year-old member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), who served at Nicon Insurance in the Nation’s capital, Abuja, before her death.
Salome was murdered when she visited the suspect at his house in the Papalana axis at New Karshi in the Karu Local Government Area of the state.
Ajayi was arrested on Sunday, January 12, 2025, while allegedly trying to dispose of the head of Salome after killing her and dismembering her body parts when she visited him at his house.
The police also paraded him alongside the knife and machetes he allegedly used to commit the crime.
When asked during an interview with Channels Television earlier whether he killed Salome, he said, “Yes,” narrating that it wasn’t planned but was because they didn’t have each other all the time.
“I killed her because we don’t have each other all the time, it’s not something I planned. It happened on that day, and it happened. Not that I had the plan in mind, she was cheating.
“She hides most of the things from me most time. I got to know from her phone. I saw her chats with other guys on the phone, that was why I decided,” he had said.
When probed further, he said he had no regrets about committing the crime.
“I don’t have any regrets because life is reciprocal; that is what I thought, if you must do something to someone, you have to be reciprocal with that person.
“You have to understand what that person is going through so that you can put yourself in the position that the person is going through,” he added
