An Ibadan, Oyo State Chief Magistrate’s Court sitting in Iyaganku on Tuesday discharged two corps members charged with committing sodomy on one of their students.
The Chief Magistrate, Kehinde Durosaro-Tijani, said the two accused, Daniel O’ Tega and Sulaiman Abari, were discharged but not on merit.
Durosaro-Tijani said: “This is based on the withdrawal letter and affidavit deposed to by the father of the victim.”
This followed the withdrawal of the case by the victim’s parents, Alhaji Hammed Sulaimon and Kafilat, of 65, Avenue Street, behind Grammar School, Molete, Ibadan.
Sulaimon, in the affidavit, said he had forgiven the accused as Sulaiman’s father, Dauda Abari, and O’Tega’s guardian, Michael Edewhosa, intervened in the matter.
Sulaiman, a graduate of the Lagos State University, Ojo, and O’tega were serving at St. Louis Secondary School 2, Molete, Ibadan.
The two were arraigned on a three-count charge of conspiracy, procuring as well as getting hold of their victim.
The prosecutor, Inspector Oluyemi Eyiaromi, had told the court that the two accused persons conspired to commit the offence.
Eyiaromi said O’tega took the male student to a room, laid him on a bed, caressed and sucked his manhood until he ejaculated.
He also said that Abari committed the same offence on the victim in November 2013 at Osungbade, Odo-Oba area of Ibadan.
Eyiaromi said the offences contravened sections 217 and 516 (A) of the Criminal Code Cap.38, Vol. II, Laws of Oyo State, 2000.
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