OBANDE FESTUS OGBUINYA, J.C.A.(Delivering the Leading Judgment): This appeal queries the correctness of the decision of the High Court of Ondo State, sitting in Akure (hereinafter addressed as the lower Court), coram judice: W. R. Olamide, J., in Charge No. AK/27C/2015, delivered on 20th January, 2016. Before the lower Court, the appellant and the respondent were the accused person and the complainant respectively.
The facts of the case, which transformed into the appeal, are submissive to brevity and simplicity. The appellant was an erstwhile driver employee of the deceased, Prof. Albert Adeoye Ilemobade of No. 1 Ikere Street, Ijapo Estate, Akure, Ondo State. On 21st June, 2015, the deceased was declared missing. It was suspected that he and his gateman Daniel Ita Effiom, were kidnapped when the deceaseds Toyota RAV 4 KV could not been found in his residence. The deceaseds relations reported the incidents to the police who swung into action to unravel the mysterious disappearance with…