BREAKING: Osun ex-speaker: Herbalist, 5 others bag 5-year jail term for fraud

BREAKING: Osun ex-speaker: Herbalist, 5 others bag 5-year jail term for fraud

A Federal High Court in Osogbo convicted six people, including a herbalist, to five years in prison each for uploading a naked video of ex-Osun Assembly Speaker, Timothy Owoye, on the internet after robbing him of N38 million.

Recalls that in 2018, a 13-second video of Timothy Owoeye went viral, in which he appeared naked and bathed in a market area.

The speaker was allegedly practicing a ritual to avert death when he was approached by community members from Osun State’s Osunjela area.

Subsequently, the convicts; Kazeem Agbabiaka, Femi Oyebode, Abdul-Rasheed Ojonla, Babatunde Oluajo, Adebiyi Kehinde, Oyebanji Oyeniyi and Ismaila Azeez were arraigned before a Magistrate court before they were transferred to Federal High court on October 19, 2018.

During the trial, the prosecution counsel led by the Assistant Director of Public Prosecution, Moses Faremi tendered 57 exhibits which included bank statements of three commercial banks where the money of fraud was received, a flash drive, a compact disc, a wooden box, $100, gun among others before the court.

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Similarly, six witnesses testified against the convicts including the ex-speaker, Timothy Owoeye, an Investigating Police Officer and four bankers.

While delivering his judgement on Tuesday, November 7, Justice Emmanuel Ayoola convicted six of them over the alleged offences bothering on bordering on conspiracy, advance-free fraud, and cyberstalking among others.

Agbabiaka (herbalist), Oyebode (community leader), Ojonla (community leader) and Babatunde (Prince) were convicted of conspiracy and advance-free fraud while Adebiyi was convicted of cyberstalking.

However, Justice Ayoola discharged Oyeniyi on the case of conspiracy levelled against him.

Justice Ayoola established that the convicts swindled the ex-speaker of N38 million and also posted his nude video on the internet which caused him (Owoeye) to ridicule.

While giving allocutus, the legal counsel to the convicts pleaded with the judge to tamper justice with mercy on the ground that they were first-time offenders and family men.

BREAKING: Osun ex-speaker: Herbalist, 5 others bag 5-year jail term for fraud