A UK court sentences a Nigerian fugitive, which the EFCC helped extradite, to life imprisonment for murder
Olaoluwa Folalu
After 14 years of playing hide-and-seek, a Nigerian fugitive, Adewale Kekere Ekun, finally pays for his involvement in the killing of Marcus Hall, 18, in the United Kingdom, UK. Kekere-Ekun, who had initially confessed to the crime before the Luton Crown Court, thought he could cover his tracksan reports EFCC Alerts.
The December edition of the agency magazine reported that, Kekere-Ekun, acting under different identities, fled to Nigeria.
It reported that, it turned out the accused that it was not a fool-proof crime, as the Bedfordshire Police had identified him in the CCTV footage of the attack, where he was wearing a distinctive checked coat.
Then, during a raid on his home, the Bedfordshire Police had found a flyer of the designer clothes store in London, where he had bought the jacket.
The EFFC arrested him for identity theftrelated offences in Nigeria, only to find out that he was a wanted man in the UK.
He was subsequently extradited to the UK on March 24, 2015 for trial. On September 9, 2015 Kekere-Ekun was sentenced to life in jail for the murder crime.
Since his celebrated conviction, all eyes seem to be on the Nigerian judiciary reputed for throwing up all imaginable boulders in the course of justice.
Many have expressed the sentiment, rightly or otherwise, that if Kekere-Ekun had been tried in Nigeria, he might have escaped justice due to prolonged adjournments.