An Oyo State High Court sitting in Ibadan has struck out the case of attempted murder and land grabbing instituted against the Oloko of Oko, Oba Solomon Akinola.
FCNN gathered that the trial judge, Justice Kareem Adedokun, struck out the name of the traditional ruler after the prosecuting counsel, I. O. Abdulazeez, on the order of the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice in Oyo State, Mr. Abiodun Aikomo, applied for the withdrawal of the case against the monarch, who is the second defendant.
Furthermore,Adedokun adjourned the case till September 18 for continuation of trial of the remaining 14 defendants, ordering the defence counsel, Mr O. A. Okeyinka, to ensure all the defendants were brought to court on the adjourned date.
In his reaction to the withdrawal, one of the complainants in the matter, Dr Isaac Abiodun, expressed sadness about the sudden twist in the matter, saying the action meant there was no justice for common man in the state.
He said the withdrawal of Oba Akinola’s name, who was the principal suspect in the case from the charge sheet, more than a year after the prosecution had closed its case, was a sign of gloomy days ahead in the administration of criminal justice in Oyo State.
According to him, the directive of the Oyo State Attorney-General to withdraw the case against Oba Akinola, the principal suspect in the case, is a travesty of justice and a very sad development.
“This is a case in which overwhelming evidence of the Oba’s terror on Aagba village has been presented before the court and the court is not being allowed to dispense justice on him. This is somebody whose actions have brought about varying degrees of injuries to some people and total destruction of valuable property, whose amount cannot yet be ascertained.
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“In fact, we have tendered evidence of how Oba Akinola supervised the torturing of three indigenes of Aagba in his palace, beating and attacking them with a machete, at the court. Honestly, we are very sad and we can’t even continue work on our farm since the latest attack of burning down of the village.”
