The deposed Baale of Shangisha in the Magodo area of Lagos, Mutiu Ogundare, was on Tuesday, September 27, sentenced to a 15-year jail term after he faked his own abduction.
Justice Hakeem Oshodi, the presiding judge, meted out the verdict to Ogundare after he was convicted of a two-count charge bordering on breach of peace and fake kidnapping, The Nation newspaper reports.
The court also slammed the monarch’s brother, Opeyemi Mohammed, with the same judgment for being his accomplice.
However, Ogundare’s wife, Abolanle, was declared innocent of the charges.
Delivering the ruling, the judge said: “I have considered the allocutus of the defence counsels. However, it is in the view of this court that the defendants showed no remorse during the trial.
“In 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.
“The defendants are hereby sentenced to 10 years to 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.
“The sentencing shall run concurrently from the day they had been arrested.”
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