A Leading Justice of the Peace Courtroom sitting in Isabo, Abeokuta, on Wednesday, sentenced 5 Egba chiefs to 6 months imprisonment for maliciously destructive the sealed letter and doing away with the warning tape pasted through the Abeokuta South Native Executive at the Ogboni Igbore space.
The court docket, alternatively, gave the chiefs choice of a N50,000 effective.
The 5 Igbore chiefs are Anthony Ogunseye (55), the Apena of Igbore, Ajasa Enisemo (67); Saheed Sanusi (50); Oludotun Oliyide (60); and Fatai Mutairu (63).
They have been convicted on a four-count fee of conspiracy, sinful harm, behavior prone to reason a breach of amusement and stealing opposite to divisions 451, 516, 249(d) and 383 of the prison code, Vol II, regulations of Ogun 2006.
Handing over the insigt, the presiding Justice of the Peace, Mrs. E.O. Ogunyemi, mentioned, “The prosecution has proved beyond reasonable doubt that the accused are guilty as charged.”
Ogunyemi added, “The evidence presented by the prosecutor is tenable, and I therefore sentence each of the chiefs to six months, with an option of a N50,000 fine each.”
Previous, the prosecutor, Insp. Olaide Rawlings instructed the court docket that the 5 defendants dedicated the offence on March 21, 2023, at about 12:15 pm on the Ogboni Area within the Igbore department.
Rawlings mentioned the chiefs conspired amongst themselves to maliciously harm the sealed letter of the Abeokuta South native executive that was once pasted at the partitions, doorways and home windows of the Ogboni Area.
She defined that the Ogboni space was once sealed through the native executive for safety causes following the catastrophe which erupted over a chieftain name within the Ogboni space.
Rawlings mentioned that the chiefs carried out themselves in a way prone to reason a breach of amusement through intentionally doing away with the warning tape positioned at the Ogboni space.
“They also stole two billboards that were fixed on the two doors of the Ogboni Ignore house by the local government,” she mentioned
The prosecutor, alternatively, mentioned the offence dedicated contravened divisions 451, 516,249(d) and 383 of the prison code, Vol II regulations of Ogun 2006.