{"id":99743,"date":"2022-09-27T15:59:38","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T14:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=99743"},"modified":"2022-09-27T15:59:38","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T14:59:38","slug":"court-jails-dethroned-traditional-leader-1-other-15-years-each","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/court-jails-dethroned-traditional-leader-1-other-15-years-each\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Jails Dethroned Traditional Leader, 1 Other 15 Years Each"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>An Ikeja High Court has sentenced a dethroned \u2018Baale\u2019 (Chief) in Shangisha in Magodo area of Lagos State, Mutiu Ogundare and his brother, Opeyemi Mohammed to 15 years imprisonment each for faking his own kidnap.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The court had on June 15 discharged and acquitted the third defendant, Ogundare\u2019s wife, Abolanle.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Justice Hakeem Oshodi had on June 15 convicted Ogundare and Mohammed on three counts of bordering on conspiracy and fake abduction.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cI have considered the allocutus of the defence counsel. However, it is in the view of this court that the defendants showed no remorse during the trial.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cIn fact, the first defendant tried to buy his way out of the court. A lesson has to be thought to serve as a deterrent to others.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cThe defendants are hereby sentenced to 10 years for count one without an option of fine, one year to count two with an option of N200,000 and 15 years to count three without an option of fine.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cThe sentencing shall run concurrently from the day they were arrested,\u201d Oshodi said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Mr Olarewaju Ajanaku who represented the first defence counsel, Dr Muniz Banire, in his allocutus on June 15 prayed the court to temper Justice with mercy.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Ajanaku had prayed the court that the convict had turned a new leaf and he did not think through his action when he committed the offences.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The second defence counsel, Dr Olayinka Owoeye, also in his allocutus had prayed the court to temper justice with mercy adding that the convict had learnt his lessons.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The state prosecutor, Mr Jubril Kareem, however, urged the court to apply the provisions of law to sentence the convict.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>According to the prosecution, the defendants committed the offence on July 5, 2017.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The prosecution said that Ogundare put himself forward to be kidnapped for the purpose of causing breach of public peace, adding that his brother and wife aided in the crime.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It could be recalled that former Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos, in July 2017, ordered the removal of Ogundare as the Baale of Shangisha, for staging his own abduction.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The offences contravene Section 7(1) and (2) of Lagos State\u00a0 Kidnapping Prohibition Law of 2017, and Sections 96\u00a0 (1) (a-d)\u00a0 and 411 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Ikeja High Court has sentenced a dethroned \u2018Baale\u2019 (Chief) in Shangisha in Magodo area of Lagos State, Mutiu Ogundare and his brother, Opeyemi Mohammed to 15 years imprisonment each&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":99744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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