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Forgery, murder threat trial: Nonagenarian, ex-parliamentarian, five others re-arraigned, granted bail

The Oyo State Police Command on Wednesday day re-arraigned seven persons, including a nonagenarian and a former international parliamentarian before a Chief Magistrate’s Court sitting in Ogbomoso Town on allegation of conspiracy, forgery, publication of false documents, and threat to murder a traditional titled holder and his family members.

In the old charge marked: MOG/157c/2021, the defendants had on September 7, 2021 been arraigned by officers of the Zone 11 Headquarters, Osogbo Command and upon pleading not guilty, Chief Magistrate Muideen Salami granted them bail in the sum of N500,000 each. While the charge was substituted and now marked: MOG /190C/2021, the Commissioner of Police, Mrs Ngozi Onadeko, was at the court represented by the prosecutor, Mr M.A. Ojei, while Dr. Olutayo Oyewale held the watching brief for the complainants.

They defendants are: Chief Mathew Wojuade Ademola (92), Wojuade Gbeniga (52), Wojuade Philip (45), Bello Semiu Opeyemi (33), Eyolade Joshua Adewumi (26), Adeniyi Idowu (39), and Dr. Folaranmi Oyebamiji (55) – a former lawmaker and international parliamentarian.

Faced with a five-count charge offence, the defendants allegedly in January 2020 conspired and conducted themselves in manner “likely to cause breach of peace of the state contrary to and punishable under section 516 of the Criminal Code cap 38 Vol. II Laws of Oyo State, 2000”.

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