Eti-Osa Local Government Area of Lagos
State, Alhaji Akibu Adam, is still
languishing in Kirikiri Prisons, Lagos, seven
days after he was arraigned before an
Igbosere Magistrate Court, Lagos for
damaging the fence of an estate belonging to
Archbishop Felix Job.
The Chief Imam is been detained following his
inability to meet his bail conditions.
Adam, who was arraigned alongside four others,
Alhaji Oseni Falana, Chief Shamsudeen Elegbeleye
and Tunde Ashafa, was alleged to have conspired
with others to destroy the fence of a 10-acre land
located at Langbasa Estate, in Eti-Osa council.
Police Prosecutor, Michael Okon, alleged in the
three-count charge leveled against the defendants,
that the destroyed fence, valued at N3 million,
belonged to Archbishop Job.
Part of the charge reads: "That you, Akibu Adam,
Oseni Falana, Shamsudeen Elegbeleye, Tunde
Ashafa and others at large, sometimes in 2012 at
Alaba Estate Langbasa town, Eti-Osa Local
Government Area, Lagos, did maliciously damage
the fence of entire 10 acres of land valued at N3
million, property of Archbishop Job."
The alleged offence committed by the defendants is
punishable under sections 52, 337 and 409 of the
criminal law of Lagos State, 2011.
When the charge was read to them, the defendants
pleaded not guilty to the charges and were granted
bail in the sum of N5 million by Magistrate H. O.
Omisore.
The matter has been adjourned till July 2.
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