JUST IN: OPC Members In Detention For Alleged Torture In Osogbo

Three members of Oodua People Congress (OPC), Bakare Banks, Oluwafemi Olaoye, and Adeyinka Simiyu, including one other presently at large were ordered by a Magistrate’s Court sitting in Osogbo, the Osun State capital, to be remanded on Monday for alleged torture, conspiracy, assault and malicious damage.

In his prayers, the prosecutor told the court that the defendants tied one Adeniyi Nurudeen with rope and beat him up, thereby inflicting various injuries on his body on March 12, 2020 at Oke Baale area of Osogbo metropolis.

He added that the offence committed contravenes and punishable under section 516, 355,451 cap 34 vol ll law of Osun state 2002.

During his explanation in the Court, Mr Isaac Oke, who is the IPO in charge of the case said that the complainant went to drink palm wine at a shop where a phone was missing, and he was accused of stealing the missing phone, adding that the owner of the shop went to report the case to some OPC members, who in turn dragged Nurudeen to their office and allegedly brutalized him by using cutlass to inflict serious injuries on him and also tore his cloth.

The defendants, through their counsel, Okobe Nagite, prayed for the bail in most liberal termshowever, pleaded not guilty to three-count charge of conspiracy, assault and malicious damage levelled against them by the police

Contrarily, in his opposed move against the bail application, the prosecutor added that granting them bail would jeopardize the efforts of the police in apprehending others at large. Court therefore ordered the remand of the defendants at Ilesa Correctional centre.

At the end, Magistrate O.A Oloyade adjourned the matter till April 13, 2020 for subsequent proceeding.