Gov Akeredolu Warns ‘Lawless Obas’ As Court Arraigns Oba Falodun

Oba Clement Aladegbaye Falodun, the Olugele of Igele, has been arraigned before an Akure Magistrate’s Court for land-grabbing.

This is coming barely 24 hours after Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu (SAN) warned traditional rulers in the state against violating the rule of law.

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Governor Akeredolu had said “If an Oba misbehaves, law is not a respecter of anybody. They would lock him up. You have a college on land and somebody said the land belongs to him.”

Oba Falodun was on Wednesday arraigned on a six-count charge of illegal destruction and possession of Federal College of Agriculture, Akure (FECA).

The property, which is said to worth N830 million, was unlawfully taken over by the monarch.

Sergeant Uloh Okokon, the police prosecutor, said Oba Falodun`s offence is punishable under Section 249 (d), Section 305A (4), Section 457 of the Criminal Codes, Cap. 37, Volume 1, Laws of Ondo State of Nigeria, 2006.

“That you, Clement Falodun and others now at large, between April 3 and June 20, 2017 around 8a.m. at Benin Garage area of the Federal College of Agriculture, Akure, did forcibly enter into the land of Federal College of Agriculture in a wrongful bid to enforce a declaratory judgment in Suit No: AK/279/2012 by self-help, without obtaining Order of Possession and Writ of Possession of the land in a manner likely to cause a breach of the peace, thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 81 of the Criminal Code, Cap. 37, Volume 1, Laws of Ondo State of Nigeria, 2006,” the suit read.

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