A Chief Magistrate’s Court in Abeokuta, Ogun State, Southwest Nigeria, has discharged and acquitted an ex-president of the Students Union Government of the Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro, Adegboye Olatunji, of cultism charges. Olatunji and one Olarewaju Taiwo were arrested for cultism by the state police command in 2020. The police claimed the duo were caught in the bush in the Gbogidi area of Ilaro, in the regalia of a cult, Black Axe. Olatunji was subsequently impeached as SUG President, while the school management also suspended him.
January 13, 2023
He and Olanrewaju were later arraigned on three counts of conspiracy, and membership of an unlawful society and unlawful assembly. “The witnesses were already discredited during the cross-examinations and the truthfulness of their testimonies has been held to be in doubt. Needless to say here that there is no evidence with which the prosecution can establish the essential elements of this offence.
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