AN Ogun Special Cultism Court in Abeokuta, on Friday, September 6, sentenced 29-year-old Tobiloba Ogunbo to seven years imprisonment for being a member of a secret cult.
Ogunbo had pleaded not guilty to the three-count charge bordering on conspiracy, belonging to an unlawful society and behaving in a manner causing a breach of public peace.
But the Magistrate, Mr. O. L. Oke, held that the prosecution had proved its case beyond reasonable doubt and, therefore, pronounced the convict guilty as charged and sentenced him to spend the next seven years in a correctional centre without an option of a fine.
Earlier, the Prosecutor, Olaide Rawlings, a Police Inspector, told the court that the convict committed the offences on January 19, about 2p. m. at Sabo area of Abeokuta.
Rawlings said the Police received information that Ogunbo, with some of his members, fought and injured one Anu.
She said while investigating the matter, the convict was arrested and upon interrogation, he made a confessional statement that he was a member of the Eiye Confraternity, which contravened Sections 45(b), 34, 36 and 37 of the Secret Cults Prohibition and Special Provisions Law of Ogun 2016.
