Prophetess’ son, 19, docked for destruction of N2.1million building

A teenage son of a prophetess on Wednesday appeared before an Ebute Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos over alleged for destruction of a N2.1 million building.

Nineteen-year-old Bright Nora, a resident of Ile-Ogbo Street, Abule Egba, Lagos, was accused setting ablaze a house whose occupants complained of disturbance by the religious activities of his mother.

The accused, however, pleaded not guilty, and was granted bail in the sum of N200,000 with two sureties in like sum.

Magistrate O.O.A. Fowowe-Erusiafe directed that the sureties should show evidence of tax payment to Lagos State Government.

She ordered that the accused should be kept in prison custody pending perfection of the bail terms.

Earlier, the prosecutor, Sgt. Mariam Dauda, told the court that the accused committed the arson on Dec. 4 at 4.00p.m., at No. 35, Ile-Ogbo St., Abule Egba.
Dauda said that the accused set ablaze the building after the occupants confronted him and his mother over alleged disturbance through the mother’s religious activities.

“The accused, in a bid to deal with the occupants of the compound after challenging his mother, set ablaze the building belonging to Mrs Nkiru Michael,” Dauda said.

She submitted that the offence contravened Section 339 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.

The case court adjourned the case till Jan. 16 for mention.

Court Jails Prophetess For Forging Land Documents

A Chief Magistrate’s Court sitting in Akure, the Ondo State capital, has sentenced a prophetess, Felicia Oyelade, to two years’ imprisonment for forging land documents and selling same to unsuspecting members of the public.

The 59-year-old prophetess was said to be in charge of the Christ Apostolic Church, Ori Oke Basiri, along Idanre Road, Akure.

She had been standing trial on one count of forgery since 2013 following an allegation that she altered documents showing on agreement between her late husband, Olasunkanmi Oyelade, and the complainant in the matter, Mr.  Isaac Babalola.

According to the prosecution counsel, Mr. Adewale Bamisile, the convict altered the original documents to read 12 hectares of land purchased at a cost of N35,000, instead of 7.871 hectares purchased for N25,500 by her late husband in 1977.

The prosecutor had said, “Oyelade’s shady deeds was exposed when she sold a portion of the land around Preston College, along kilometre 4, Akure-Owo Road, Akure, to an unsuspecting buyer with the forged document after the same land had been sold to another person by the rightful owner and complainant in the matter, Mr. Isaac Babalola.”

Oyelade had pleaded not guilty to the charge of forgery levelled against her, saying she was part of the transaction between her husband and Babalola’s family when the land was bought.

She said the documents were found in her husband’s room after the demise of her husband and that she had relied on it to sell the land to the people.

After a plea for leniency because of Oyelade’s “teeming dependants and the church she was leading” by the convicts lawyer, Mr.  Dele Ibitayo, the presiding magistrate, Chief Magistrate Olubukola Kuye, ordered that the altered documents be destroyed.

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