Court Orders Ibukun Fadipe To Appear In Court
Mar 13th, 2010 | By Bankole Alao David | Category: From The Courts•Remands Another Suspect In Prison Over Rape
Sacked Chairman of Ilesa-West Local Government Council Area of Osun State, Mr. Ibukun Fadipe has been ordered to appear in court over his alleged complicity in a case of rape by a State High Court sitting in Ilesa.
Fadipe, with other nine respondents were sued to court by a 17-year-old girl, Tosin Ajakaye, who was allegedly raped, assaulted, injured, and humiliated by Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) thugs at the residence of one of the party’s chieftains, Mr. Gani Oladiran sometimes ago.
The incident occurred on September 15, 2007 at Ilaje Street in Ilesa.
Ajakaye had approached the court to enforce her fundamental human rights as provided by the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
She claimed that her rights to dignity, freedom of movement, liberty and privacy had been breached by the respondents by raping, dehumanizing, torturing and subjecting her to trauma.
Ajakaye said the respondents have violated sections 34, 35, 37 and 41 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Respondents in the case included the prime suspect, one Kola Obafemi, Osun State Commissioner of Police, Kehinde Odeniran, Lazeez Adediji, Muyiwa Owoeye, Akin Akerele Olajide Awe Seyi Akerele, Oladiran and Fadipe.
The victim is praying the court to enforce her rights and compel the respondents to pay the sum of N100 million as damages.
The state commissioner of police is listed among the respondents to arrest and prosecute the suspects on the matter diligently.
When the case came up on Tuesday at the court, Fadipe was absent. He was also absent at the previous hearings of the case.
OSUN DEFENDER gathered that the embattled council boss had never, for once, appeared in the court on the matter.
Counsel to the victim, Mr. Tajudeen Akingbolu told the presiding judge, Justice Abdulrasak Babatunde Abdukareem, that the court had earlier, on the previous date of adjournment, ordered Fadipe to appear in court but refused.
Akingbolu urged the court to make a fresh order compelling the council boss to be present in court on the next date of adjournment.
However, Justice Abdulkareem upheld the submission of the victim’s lawyer and ordered that Fadipe should appear in court for cross-examination on the veracity of deposition contained in his affidavit dated November 10, 2008.
The case was adjourned till March 23, 2010.
Besides, the prime suspect, Obafemi, who is standing trial at the same court for rape and indecent assault of Ajakaye, has been ordered to be remanded in prison custody for failing to appear in court when the case came up at its previous hearing.
Obafemi had absented twice in court on the matter, a development that compelled the judge to issue a bench warrant against him.
At the previous hearing, the presiding judge of the court, Abdulkareem, ordered the suspect to be remanded in prison custody for failing to appear in court.
OSUN DEFENDER gathered that the police in connivance with the loyalists of the suspect defied the court order and took Obafemi to a police station instead of prison custody.
Justice Abdulkareem lamented the action of the police on Monady when the case came up for further hearing and re-remanded the accused person in prison custody.
The case was adjourned till March 24, 2010 for further hearing.
Meanwhile, Oladiran and other suspects accused of complicity in the raping and assaulting of Ajakaiye are standing trial at a Magistrate Court , sitting in Osogbo, the state capital.
Oladiran is being tried for conspiracy and assault following the directive of the state Ministry of Justice that said the PDP chieftain and other accused persons are accomplices in the crime.
The case would also come up on March 23, 2010.
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