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  • Court sentences two to death in Ekiti

    An Ado Ekiti High Court has sentenced two persons Adedayo Oluwayemi (27) and Daramola Seyi (23) to death for robbing a night club in the city.

    Justice John Adeyeye, who delivered the judgement, held that the duo was guilty of the two-count charge of armed robbery and conspiracy preferred against them.

    The judge found them guilty of violating Section 516 of the Criminal Code Cap C16 Laws of Ekiti State 2012 and Section 1(2) (b) of Robbery and Firearms (Special Provision) Act Laws of the Federation 2014.

    Justice Adeyeye, however, discharged and acquitted the third accused person, Ogunleye Ige on grounds that evidence before the court showed that there was no nexus between him and the incident.

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    The court heard the accused persons reportedly invaded Ckib 15 Dynamic Lounge, Irewumi, opposite Bawa Estate, Ado Ekiti on 4th August 2018 with guns and robbed their victims of their properties.

    Some of the properties they robbed their victims of at gunpoint include laptops, phones and sales for the day.

    They were arrested at the point of selling the stolen items particularly the laptops and phones when they could not provide the passwords.

    The accused persons were first arraigned in court on 16th October, 2017 when the charges were read to them, which they pleaded not guilty.

    Prosecution counsel, Felix Awoniyi, called six witnesses and tendered exhibits including the two laptops.

    Defence counsel, Toyin Oluwole, did not call any witness in the course of the trial.

  • Man rapes 4-yr-old stepdaughter, sentenced to 14 years

    Man rapes 4-yr-old stepdaughter, sentenced to 14 years

    An Ado-Ekiti High Court on Thursday sentenced a 57-year-old man, David Oluwatoba, to 14 years imprisonment for raping his four-year-old stepdaughter.

    Justice Toyin Abodunde held that the prosecution had proved the case against the convict beyond reasonable doubt.

    The judge held that the prison term for the convict, who was first arraigned on Nov. 27, 2015, would run from the day of conviction.

    The incident, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports,  happened on Aug. 12, 2013,  at Odo Usi Street, Awo Road, Igede-Ekiti in  Irepodun/Ifelodun Local Government Area of the state.

    Exhibits tendered to convict Oluwatoba included some  photographs, medical report on the sexual assault and statement of the accused at the police station.

    NAN also reports that the convict is married to two wives, including the mother of the victim who was the second wife.

    NAN further reports that the victim’s mother was not at home on the day of the incident and  the convict took advantage of her absence to rape her after bathing her.

    The mother on arrival discovered bloodstains on the victim’s cloth as she was still bleeding from her private part and she raised an alarm.

    The incident was consequently reported at the Igede-Ekiti Police Divisional Headquarters while the convict was arrested.

  • Ekiti poll: Aluko floors Fasoye as court quashes arrest warrant 

    Ekiti poll: Aluko floors Fasoye as court quashes arrest warrant 

    An Ado Ekiti High Court has quashed a warrant of arrest issued against a former Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ekiti State, Dr. Temitope Aluko.

    The state government through the Office of the Attorney General on February 3,2016, secured the bench warrant seeking Aluko’s arrest at an Ado Ekiti Chief Magistrate’s Court presided over by Mr. Adesoji Adegboye.

    The state government had approached the Magistrate’s Court to compel the police to arrest Aluko for alleged perjury after claiming that the election which brought Governor Ayo Fayose to power was rigged.

    The Fayose administration averred that Aluko had committed perjury having earlier testified before the governorship election Tribunal that the election was free and fair.

    But the state High Court presided over by Justice John Adeyeye set aside the bench warrant issued by the Magistrate’s Court following the hearing of a motion ex-parte filed and sworn to by Fayose’s aide, Lere Olayinka.

    The case with Suit Number HAD/191M/2016 has Attorney General of Ekiti State as applicant while the Commissioner of Police is the respondent.

    The application was seeking an order of the court granting leave for the applicant to apply for the issuance of prerogative writ of mandamus to compel the respondent to discharge its statutory duty to arrest and investigate Aluko for alleged perjury and be made to face trial as a result of the investigation.

    But Justice Adeyeye, according to an Enrolment of Order obtained by our reporter on Friday nullified the bench warrant issued by the Chief Magistrate’s Court on ground that motion was not filed within three amounts allowed by law after Aluko had given evidence before the Tribunal.

    The certified copy of the Enrolment of Order was issued at the High Court Registry, Ado Ekiti bythe presiding Judge on Thursday, 5th of May, 2016.

    Justice Adeyeye ruled: “This application was brought pursuant to Order 40 of the High Court of Ekiti State Civil Procedure Rules.

    “Order 40 Rules (4) provides as follows: an application for judicial review shall be brought within three months of the date of occurrence of the subject of application.

    “Since Dr. Temitope Aluko was alleged to have committed the offence of perjury when he testified before the Election Petition Tribunal on 12/11/2014, the subject matter of the application is clearly a period of more than three months stipulated by Order 40 Rule (4).

    “The application having been brought outside the period stipulated by the Rules of this Court, in my humble view, is incompetent. It should be dismissed. I hereby dismiss it.”

     

     

     

  • Proprietor bags 10- year jail term for raping minor

    An Ado-Ekiti High Court on Tuesday sentenced a school proprietor, Ibitoye Babatunde to 10 years imprisonment for raping a 10-year-old girl.

    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the convict is the proprietor of God is Great Nursery and Primary school, Ado-Ekiti.

    In his judgment, Justice Mosun Abodunde said that the prosecution had established case of rape beyond reasonable doubt.

    She described the convict as a pathological liar, randy, shameless adult who is a danger to girl-child around him, including his own female children.

    “The court must rise up to give the needed defence to the voiceless children,” she added.
    Abodunde said that the court cannot watch sexual violence against any one if proved, to go unpunished.

    “Teachers, proprietors, parents are meant to be destiny moulders and not destiny destroyers or wasters,” she said.

    The judge also said that the menace of rape, defilement and sexual assault is on alarming increase in the society.

    The court found the accused guilty and convicted as charged in accordance with provisions of SS 2(2) Child’s Rights Laws, 2006,Ekiti State, Nigeria.

    The judge sentenced him to 10 years imprisonment without an option of fine.

    The State Counsel, Miss Oluseyi Ojo, had told the court that the accused had been assaulting the victim, until he raped her on June 10 in the school premises.

    She called four witnesses to prove her case, among them the victim, her step mother and a medical doctor.

    The state counsel said that the convict committed an offence which was contrary to Section 31(2) of the Child Rights Laws of Ekiti State.

    Also, counsel to the accused, Mr Emmanuel Adedeji called three witnesses to prove his client’s innocence