Timileyin Ajayi, Killer of NYSC Member Salome Adaidu Sentenced to Death by Hanging

The Federal High Court sitting in Lafia, Nasarawa State, has sentenced Oluwatimileyin Ajayi, the suspected killer of a National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member, Salome Adaidu, to death by hanging.

Presiding judge, Justice Simon Aboki, who handed found Ajayi guilty of killing and dismembering Adaidu after he was arraigned on a charge of culpable homicide contrary to Section 221 of the Penal Code of Northern Nigeria and punishable by death.

Details of Arrest

Ajayi who was arrested in January with the late 24-year-old’s severred head in a polythene bag had confessed to killing Adaidu with a knife in his bathroom because she was cheating on him.

“I caught her cheating on me. I brought it to her awareness that she was cheating, but she refused to accept it until I showed her the chats and showed her what she did before she admitted it. And she said she was sorry it was not going to happen again,” he said in an interview after he was caught.

“I asked her to go to the bathroom, and she started some things. I could not take it lightly. I went to the room and took the knife from the restroom. I held her neck and did what I had to do. When she died, nothing really happened. I only took some part of the knife. I was not caught [by the police]. I surrendered myself.” He said at the time.

However, the deceased’s family countered Ajayi, saying their daughter was never the girlfriend of the gospel singer.