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<\/p>\nThe three accused men and a woman are: Silifatu Abisile, 60; Jimoh Abisile, 52; Gbade Bakare, 56; and Isaiah Bakare, 45.<\/p>\n
The accused are facing a-five-count charge of conspiracy, kidnapping, breach of peace, forgery and false assumption of authority.<\/p>\n
The Police Prosecutor, Williams Ologun, told the court that the accused committed the offences on Nov. 1, at Ishola Daniel Street in Oshodi area of Lagos.<\/p>\n
Ologun alleged that the accused had conspired to illegally sell the house they were living, which did not belong to them.<\/p>\n
He said that a prospective buyer had insisted they relocate the grave that was in front of the house before he would make payments.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy Lord, they forged an exhumation of corpse permit from Oshodi -Isolo Local Government and dug up the corpse of the house owner, Sumonu Bakare, who was buried in the compound.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey also kidnapped the son of the deceased; Gbenro Bakare, who is crippled, thinking he was the only surviving child of the deceased,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Ologun said that the first and second accused were relations of the deceased while the third and fourth accused were longtime tenants on the property.<\/p>\n
He said that the third and fourth accused had registered for a change of name to \u2018Bakare\u2019, which was not their real names, claiming to be the children of the deceased.<\/p>\n
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the offences contravened Sections 76 (1) [c], 168 (1) (d), 271 (1), 365 and 411 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.<\/p>\n
The accused, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges.<\/p>\n
The Chief Magistrate, Mr Peter Ojo, granted the accused bail in the sum of N500,000 each with two sureties each in like sum.<\/p>\n
In his ruling, Ojo insisted that one of each accused\u2019s sureties must be a blood relation and must be resident within the court\u2019s jurisdiction.<\/p>\n
He said each of the sureties must also show evidence of three years tax payment to the Lagos Government and be gainfully employed.<\/p>\n
Ojo then adjourned the case until Jan. 10 for trial.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Four persons, who allegedly exhumed the corpse of their landlord before selling his property, on Monday appeared before a Yaba Chief Magistrates\u2019 Court in Lagos. The three accused men and a woman are: Silifatu Abisile, 60; Jimoh Abisile, 52; Gbade Bakare, 56; and Isaiah Bakare, 45. The accused are facing a-five-count charge of conspiracy, kidnapping, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,3],"tags":[4866],"class_list":["post-66627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-crime"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}