Court sentences five-man gang to five years imprisonment each for defrauding ex-Osun speaker of N38m

On Tuesday, a federal high court in Osogbo convicted five people of cheating the immediate past Speaker of the Osun State House of Assembly,  Timothy Owoeye, of thirty-eight million naira (N38m) in 2018.

The defendants in the case, Kazeem Agbabiaka, Femi Oyebode, Babatunde Oluajo, Adebiyi Kehinde Oseni, Oyebanji Oyeniyi, and Rasheed Ojonla, were facing a 5-count charge in court for conspiracy to defraud, acquiring under false pretence, public ridicule, and cybercrime.

In his verdict, Justice Emmanuel Ayoola described the convicted as a network of syndicates who did not deserve to be in society without rehabilitation, and sentenced the five of them who were found guilty and convicted to five years in jail apiece.

A federal high court in Osogbo on Tuesday has convicted five persons for defrauding the immediate past Speaker of Osun State House of Assembly the sum of thirty eight million naira (N38m) in 2018.

The defendants in the case, kazeem agbabiaka, Femi Oyebode, Babatunde Oluajo, Adebiyi Kehinde Oseni, Oyebanji Oyeniyi and Rasheed Ojonla were facing a 5-count charge before the court, bothering on conspiracy to defraud, obtaining under false pretence, public ridicule and cyber crime.

Delivering his judgement, justice Emmanuel Ayoola described the convicted as a web of syndicates who did not deserve to be in the society without a reform thereby sentencing the five of them who were found guilty and convicted to five years imprisonment each.

The 1st, 2nd, 4th and 5th defendants, Kazeem Agbabiaka, Femi Oyebode, and Babatunde Oluajo respectively were convicted and sentenced to 5years imprisonment having been found guilty of the 1st and 2nd count charge.

He however discharged and acquitted the 7th defendant, Ismaila Azeez, on the count charge bothering on cyberbullying while Kehinde Oseni was found guilty of the same charge and sentenced to 5 years imprisonment.