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BREAKING: Deposed Baale of Shangisha Jailed 15 Years(Details)

Deposed Baale of Shangisha has been jailed for 15 years.

an Ikeja High Court has sentenced a deposed Baale of Shangisha in Magodo area of Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial city, Mutiu Ogundare, to 15 years imprisonment for faking his own kidnap.

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This online news platform understands that Justice Hakeem Oshodi sentenced the deposed Baale of Shangisha on Tuesday, September 27, 2022, following his conviction on a two-count bordering on breach of peace and fake kidnapping.

The ex-Baale’s brother, Opeyemi Mohammed, was also handed the same prison term, however, the court set his wife Abolanle, free having earlier absolved her of the charges.

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According to the prosecution, the defendants committed the offence on July 5, 2017.

The prosecution explained that Ogundare put himself forward to be kidnapped for the purpose of causing a breach of public peace, adding that his brother and wife aided in the crime

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For staging his kidnap as the then Baale of Shangisha, t Ogundare was removed as the Baale of Shangisha by former Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos, in July 2017.

 

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