Ex-Oshiomhole’s Aide, Others Remanded Prison

Justice Joseph Acha of the Benin High Court (Criminal Division) has on Monday remanded in prison custody, the former aide to the Adams Oshiomole, National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Lucky Igbinovia.

Naija News reports that Igbinovia, popularly known as One-Man-Squad was formerly the Special Assistant to Oshiomhole on community security and a top APC member. He was remanded alongside two other suspects, Joel Otoghile and Kingsley Iyamu for allegedly stripping a 24-year old commercial sex worker, Favour Ada naked and inserting pepper into her private part.

The suspects were remanded in custody till March 6 to decide on the final application.

The prosecution counsel, Mr Peter Ugwumba, in the case marked 117/2019, read out 14 counts against the accused persons, bordering on attempted murder, kidnapping, injury, trial by ordeal, false accusation, extortion, recording the act and transmitting it into video film which has since gone viral on the internet, amongst other allegations.

Meanwhile, the accused persons pleaded before the court to be not guilty of all the charges levied against them.

It would be recalled that Naija News had reported that the lady was accused of stealing an iPhone Xs-Max worth N440,000, belonging to Joel Igbinovia.

Speaking on his involvement, Joel said the victim and her female friend were invited to a hotel at Ugbiyoko, a suburb of Benin city, to entertain his friends, before they all discovered that the lady had hidded his phone.

“The girl was a prostitute. My younger cousin called her to the hotel and she came with another girl. I got up to pay my hotel bill on POS, but when I got back to my seat, my phone was no longer where I put it and the girls were gone. I asked why and I was told that the girls said the money we offered was too small.

“We searched everywhere but we couldn’t find the phone. We then went to another hotel where the girls had gone to and we met them there. I then pleaded with the girl (Ada) to return the phone to me because she would not be able to use it, being an iPhone, but she denied. It was then decided that we invite a voodoo man the following day to resolve the issue,” Joel said.

source https://www.naijanews.com/2019/02/12/ex-oshiomholes-aide-others-remanded-prison/