JUST IN: Timileyin Ajayi pleads not guilty to murder of Salome Adaidu

Timileyin Ajayi, accused of killing 24-year-old Salome Adaidu, has been arraigned before the High Court of Justice in Lafia, the Nasarawa State capital.

Ajayi faces a charge of culpable homicide punishable by death, as defined under Section 221 of the Penal Code of Northern Nigeria. The arraignment took place on Monday before Justice Simon Aboki, where the 32-year-old pleaded not guilty to the charge.

Ajayi was arrested in connection with the murder of Adaidu, a National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member who worked at Nicon Insurance in Abuja before her tragic death.

Salome was murdered when she visited the suspect at his house in the Papalana axis at New Karshi in Karu Local Government Area of Nasarawa State.

The police had paraded Ajayi alongside the knife and machetes he used to commit the crime.

Timi was nabbed Sunday, January 12, 2025, while trying to dispose of the head of Salome after killing her and dismembering her body parts when she visited him at his house.

Answering questions in an exclusive interview from our Correspondent, when asked if he killed Salome, he answered “Yes”, narrating that it wasn’t planned but it is because they don’t have each other all the time.

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“I killed her because we don’t have each other all the time, it’s not something I planned. It happened on that day and it happened. Not that I have the plan in mind, she was cheating. She hides most of the things from me most time. I got to know from her phone. I saw her chats with other guys on the phone, that was why I decided,” he said.

When probed further, he said he has no regrets in committing the crime.

He said, no. “I don’t have any regrets because life is reciprocal that is what I thought, if you must do something to someone, you have to be reciprocal with that person. You have to understand what that person is going through so that you can actually put yourself in the position that the person is going through, that is why I don’t have any regrets because we were actually compatible.”