Police in Ekiti State have arraigned a 20-year-old cattle rarer, Mohamadu

Bello, before an Ado Ekiti Chief Magistrate’s Court for allegedly destroying

farm produce valued at N3.8m belonging to four individuals.

The police prosecutor, Inspector Elijah Adejare, who disclosed this said, the

defendant committed the offence on August 10 at Ido Ile Ekiti and the act

contravened Sections 363 of the Criminal Law of Ekiti State, 2021, and prayed

the court for an adjournment to enable him to study the case file and

present his witnesses.

Counsel for the defendant, Adeyemi Egbebi, urged the court to grant the

defendant bail, with a promise that he would not jump bail, while, the Chief

Magistrate, Bankole Oluwasanmi, granted the defendant bail in the sum of

N80,000 with one surety in like sum and adjourned the case till September 6

for hearing.

This was as another Chief Magistrate Court in Ado Ekiti presided over by

Abayomi Adeosun, granted bail to two men, Hammed Abdulrasheed, and

Abiodun Aluko, arraigned before the court for allegedly stealing a motorbike,

while, the police prosecutor, Sergeant Alice Ojo, told the court that the

defendants, 22-year-old Abdurasheed and 42-year-old Aluko) allegedly

committed the offence on August 6 in Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital.

The Chief Magistrate, Abayomi Adeosun, granted bail to the defendants in

the sum of N250,000 with one surety each in like sum and adjourned the

case till September 27 for hearing.