An Ikeja High Court, on Tuesday, sentenced the deposed Baale of Shangisha in the Magodo area of Lagos, Mutiu Ogundare, charged with faking his kidnap, to 15-year jail term.
Justice Hakeem Oshodi sentenced Ogundare having convicted him of a three-count charge bordering on breach of peace and fake kidnapping.
Also jailed for the same prison term is his brother, Opeyemi Mohammed.
The court had on June 15 discharged and acquitted his wife Abolanle, of the charges.
Delivering judgment in the matter, Justice Oshodi said he considered the allocutus of the defense counsel in arriving at his decision.
The judge held that the defendants, particularly the first defendant, showed no remorse in the course of the trial.
“The first defendant tried to buy his way out of the court. This is why the defendants must be taught a lesson to serve as deterrence to others,” he
Justice Oshodi thereafter sentenced Ogundare and Mohammed to ten years imprisonment on count one without an option of fine, one year on count two with an option of fine in the some of N200,000 only.
