Illegal Detention: Ondo Attorney General Halts Trial Of CJ’s Sibling |The Source

By Ayodele Oni

The trial of a relation of the Chief Judge of Ondo state, Justice Akeredolu, on spurious charges may have been halted.

This followed a directive from the office of the Attorney General, (AG) of the state that the suit against Olupelumi Fagboyegun pending at the Chief Magistrate Court, Owo,  be discontinued.

Acting on the power conferred on the office of the AG by section 211 of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999, the office said it was no longer interested in the prosecution of the accused person.

A report of the investigation carried out by the State’s former Commissioner of Justice,  Sir Charles Titiloye, directed contending parties in the case to seek resolution of their dispute through a civil action or other means of alternative dispute resolution.

The former AG  had invited the state Judicial Service Commission to investigate issues relating to the delay in the hearing of the case before the magistrate court.

The office of the AG, also, referred the matter to the Ondo state House of Assembly for investigation.

A viral video, early in the week, featured Pelumi Fagboyegun, who alleged that the state Judiciary and Courts were being used by the Chief Judge, Oluwatoyin Akeredolu to prosecute him unjustly.

He  also alleged that he has been kept in custody in the past three years on trumped up criminal allegation of unlawful entry into his father’s house.

Pelumi, who claimed that he is also a biological son of the late industrialist in Ondo state, Olajide Fagboyegun, who died in 2008, begged Nigerians to come to his rescue.

In the two minutes video, he claimed that he had been arraigned in court five times before different Judges handling the case against him.

Justice Akeredolu had denied the allegation and an earlier report from the AG’s office had cleared her of any wrongdoing in the matter.