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24-Year-Old Man Bags 3 Months Jail Term For Assaulting Caretaker

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A man identified as Segun Oluwafemi, has today, Wednesday, been sentenced to three months in prison by an Iyaganku Magistrates’ Court in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.

The 24-year-old was sentenced for threatening and assaulting the caretaker handling his late father’s property.

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The prosecutor, Sgt .Olalekan Adegbite, had told the court that one Solomon was the caretaker of Oluwafemi’s late fathers’ four bedroom flat and was in charge of dividing the rent received from the building among four siblings from different mothers.

Adegbite also informed the court that Oluwafemi threatened the caretaker with deadly weapons, adding that the convict later assaulted the caretaker with offensive weapons and conducted himself in a manner likely to disrupt peace at about 3 p.m. on Sept. 11, 2017 at Ayinde Complex, Abeokuta road, Apata, Ibadan.

He stated that the offences contravened sections 249 (d), 86 (1)and 351 of he Criminal Code Cap 38, Vol. II, Laws of Oyo state 2000.

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The presiding Magistrate, Mrs Oluwayemisi Enilolobo, said Oluwafemi after hearing both sides ruled that Oluwafemi should spend three months at Agodi prison without an option of fine.

Enilolobo said “this will serve as deterrent to others of your kind.”

She added that “Oluwafemi was found guilty of conducting himself in a manner likely to cause breach of peace, thereby sentenced to one month in prison.

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“He was found guilty of threatening to injure and kill Solomon Olufemi, being the caretaker to his late father’ s property with offensive weapons.”