By Bilesanmi Abayomi
Kosofe’s monarch, the Onikosi of Ikosi, Oba Alami Oloyede Onikosi, will have his case heard at the Federal High Court in Abuja on January 17, 2023, over his alleged complicity in the forgery and falsification of a Supreme Court judgment. The
Kosofe Post reports that Oba Onikosi was docked alongside three others on a seven-count charge that also contained an allegation of perjury.
The other defendants in the charge marked FHC/ABJ/CR/242/2022 were Muyideen Fabunmi, Alademehim Samuel, and High Chief Michael Adesegun Onikoro.
Specifically, it was alleged in the charge signed by Police Prosecutor, CSP Joe Nwadike, that the defendants had sometimes in 2018 forged a Supreme Court judgment in suit No. 117 of 1936, “with spurious inscriptions as A739972 and 7/6/75, purported to have been delivered by one Justice C. W. V. Carcey, dated February 1, 1937, knowing it to be false, or with the intent that it may in any way be used or acted upon as a genuine Supreme Court of Nigeria judgment.”
Meanwhile, the defendants pleaded not guilty to the charge, even as trial Justice Inyang Ekwo allowed them to go home on the terms of the administrative bail police earlier granted them.
The court fixed January 17, 2023, for the commencement of the hearing in the matter.