Crime
Lagos monarch bags 15-year jail-term for faking own kidnap
Deposed Baale of Shangisha in Magodo area of Lagos Mutiu Ogundare, who faked his own kidnapping in 2017 has been sentenced to a 15-year jail term by an Ikeja High Court.
Recall that the thenLagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode had dethroned Ogundare after he was accused of faking his own kidnapping on july 5, 2017.
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He was subsequently arraigned before a Lagos State Magistrate’s Court, alongside his wife, Abolanle and brother, Mohammed Babatunde.
The charge sheet stated that Ogundare on July 5, 2017 “put himself forward to be kidnapped for the purpose of causing breach of public peace” contrary to Section 5 of the Kidnapping Prohibition 2017, No. C17, Law of Lagos State.
Justice Hakeem Oshodi sentenced Ogundare having convicted him of a two-count bordering on breach of peace and fake kidnapping.
Also jailed for the same prison term is his brother, Opeyemi Mohammed. The court however set his wife Abolanle, free, having earlier absolved her of the charges.
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