The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCS) has dismissed reports alleging that an awaiting trial inmate, Ayomide Adeleye, who confessed to killing a Lagos State University student, was no longer in custody.

This was contained in a statement issued by Deputy Controller of Corrections, Abubakar Umar on Monday, January 6, 2025 in Abuja.

Adeleye aged 23, with Custody Number S-1995/24, was remanded at the Maximum Security Custodial Centre (MSCC), Kirikiri, Lagos, for alleged kidnapping and murder.

He was initially remanded on Sept. 26, 2024, on the order of the Ogba Magistrates’ Court in Lagos State and on Dec.16, the same court ordered his continued remand in the custody of the NCoS pending advice from the Department of Public Prosecution (DPP).

A report emerged recently that Adeleye is no longer in prison, but the correctional  agency has come out to dispel it. Umar said that there was another inmate with a similar name, Ayomide Adeleye, who was admitted at the Medium Security Custodial Centre, Kirikiri, Lagos, on March 6, 2024, for alleged theft and later discharged.