A member of the National Union of Road
Transport Workers in Ibadan, Akinwumi Adisa,
has been sentenced to 9,125 days in prison
with hard labour for the murder of a medical
student of the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria,
Anwal Shannono, on Oyo Road, Ibadan.

Justice Munta Abimbola of the Oyo State High
Court, who gave the sentence, said evidence
showed that Adisa was guilty of the crime he
was charged with.
He, however, discharged three other members
of the union, Olumide Oladeji, Sadeeq Adejide
and Tajudeen Arowotosuna, on the ground that
there was no enough evidence linking them to
the crime.

Court record said the medical student of ABU,
Shannono, was shot dead and roasted on June
4, 2011, during a supremacy fight between
factional groups of the union over the control of
a motor park.
The deceased, who was said to be the
President of the Medical Students Association of
Nigeria, was in 500 level at the time of his
death.
He was returning from a programme in Osogbo
with some of his colleagues when he was
killed.

Arowotosuna, who was discharged by the judge,
brought his wife and a lawmaker as witnesses
to prove that he was not at the scene of the
crime when the medical student was killed.
He claimed that he was on his way to Abuja at
the time to attend a burial.