An Igede-Ekiti Magistrate’s Court in Ekiti state on Wednesdaysentenced a 70-year-old man, Adeyeye Olorunyomi, and his two sons to six months imprisonment for conspiring to commit felony.
Olorunyomi and his sons, Akindele Olorunyomi (30) and Ojo Olorunyomi (36) were arraigned on a six-count charge of forciblyentering a farm belonging to one Oluwadare Olowookere and Adekunle Olowookere.
The Police Prosecutor, Sgt. Olubu Apata, stated the offence wascommitted in the town between 25th and 27th February, 2019.
Apata said that the convicts stole three timber of trees valued atN100,000 belonging to the complainants.
The prosecutor added that the convicts also obstructed one Insp. Aliyu Umar and four other police officers from effecting their arrest after a complaint was lodged against them at the Igede Ekiti Police Station.
He said that, the convicts also conduct themselves in a manner likelyto cause breach of peace by marking twenty eight timber wood withcutlass on the farmland of the complainants.
Apata further said that the convicts did unlawfully damage theeconomic trees such as cocoa trees, kola nut trees, banana trees and cocoa yam trees belonging to the complainants.
The convicts pleaded not guilty to all the count charge and the matterproceeded into trial.
The prosecutor noted, the offences contravened section 516, 81, 390,356 (2), 249(d) and 451 of the Criminal Code, Laws of Ekiti State,2012.
He added that the convicts claimed that the land was given to thecomplainants by their great grandfather but the complainants countered that the land has been in their possession for over 100 years.
The prosecutor said it was in the proceedings that the magistratefound the convicts guilty of the charges.
The Magistrate, Mrs. Adesola Omotoso, sentence each convicts on count oe, two and three to six month imprisonment, while in count four, fiive and six, they were discharged.
Omotoso, therefore sentence the convicts to six month imprisonment to run concurrently without an option of fine.
