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Two friends, Noah Tovohome and Rajay Zannu, are now in jail for supposedly planning and carrying out the killing of their friend, Segun Zusu, over 36 bags of rice.
They were put in jail by a court in Yaba, Lagos, overseen by Magistrate Linda Balogun on Tuesday. The charges against them are about murder.
In court, it was revealed that Tovohome and Zannu worked with a boat driver who was moving Zusu’s stuff from Seme. They planned to harm him and take the bags of rice.
On that day, around 2 am at Novo River in Seme, they stopped the boat, hit Zusu with a plank, and threw him into the river.
After that, they took the bags of rice to Badagry, sold them for about N1.4 million to a businesswoman, and split the money.
In the courtroom, the police prosecutor, Chekwube Okeh, stated that the defendants committed the alleged crime on November 12, 2023.
Okeh explained that the actions of the defendants go against Section 222 and are punishable under Section 223 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State 2015.
The charges mentioned, “That you, Noah Tovohome, 27, Rajay Zannu, 38, and others at large, on November 12, 2023, around 2 am, at Novo River, Seme, Lagos State, in the Lagos Magisterial District, did unlawfully kill one 26-year-old Segun Zusu, by hitting a plank on his head and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 222 and punishable under Section 223 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State 2015.”
The defendants did not enter pleas. Okeh requested the court to keep them in a correctional center until legal advice is received from the Directorate of Public Prosecutions.
Magistrate Balogun approved the request, ordering the defendants to be remanded in the Kirikiri Correctional Centre until the DPP’s advice is obtained. The case is scheduled for further hearing on January 22, 2024, awaiting advice from the DPP.