Timothy Adegoke: Broadcaster, Oriyomi Hamzat, Arrested, Flown to Abuja

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Popular broadcaster and founder of Agidigbo FM, Ibadan, Oyo State, Alhaji Oriyomi Hamzat, has been arrested.

NewsmakersNG learnt that he was arrested this morning by police officers from the Federal Intelligence Bureau (FIB), Abuja.

Hamzat has been at the forefront of those seeking justice for the late Timothy Adegoke, a postgraduate student of Obafemi Awolowo University, who died mysteriously at Hilton Hotel and Resort, Ile-Ife, Osun State, on November 5, last year, and was secretly buried by some staff of the hotel.

The hotel is owned by socialite and founder of Oduduwa University, Ile-Ife, Prince Ramon Adedoyin, who is currently standing trial before an Osun State High Court in Osogbo, alongside six staff of the hotel for their alleged complicity in Adegoke’s death.

The six others include, Magdalene Chiefuna, Adeniyi Aderogba, Oluwale Lawrence, Oyetunde Kazeem, Adebayo Kunle and Adedeji Adesola.

They were arraigned on 11- count charge bordering on conspiracy, murder, tampering with corpse, altering of receipt and administration of extrajudicial oath, among others.

NewsmakersNG further gathered that Hamzat got an invitation from the State Intelligence Bureau (SIB) to report at their Iyaganku, Ibadan, office this morning and was immediately handed over to the officers from Abuja.

He was subsequently driven in an unmarked Toyata sedan to the local wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport in Lagos, enroute Abuja.

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