A Magistrates’ court sitting in Osogbo, Osun state, Monday remanded a 40-year-old man, Adebisi Olawaseun, in prison, for impersonating Captain of the Nigerian Army.
Blueprint recalled that the defendant led the fresh EndSARS protest at the Osun State House of Assembly last week Monday before he was later arrested by the operatives of the State Services.
The Department of State Services however pressed four-count charges of forgery, impersonation and fraudulent intent against him.
The charge reads in part: “That you Adebisi Emmanuel Oluwaseun, 40, on or about 19th June, 2020 at the Osun State Office of the Public Complaint Commission (Nigeria Ombudsman) Gbogan road, Osogbo, did commit felony to wit forgery by making false attestation in a document titled “.
Memorandum of Understanding reference PCC/OS/2020 6/7/7 through your witnessing and signing same in the name “Captain Adebisi Emmanuel and thereby committed an offence contrary to section 465 and punishable 467 of the Criminal Code Cap 34 Vol II, law of Osun state, 2002.
“That you Adebisi Emmanuel Oluwaseun, 40, on or about 19th June, 2020 at the Osun State Office of the Public Complaint Commission (Nigeria Ombudsman) Gbogan road, Osogbo, did commit felony by holding yourself out with fraudulent intent to officers of the commission as Captain Adebisi Emmanuel Oluwaseun of the Nigerian Army and thereby committed an offence.
“That you Adebisi Emmanuel Oluwaseun, male, 40 Years of age on or about 9 December, 2020 in your residence located at the Ile Idande Area Ayekole, Osogbo within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court was found with and did possess without satisfactory account of the gear, uniforms, garbs and accoutrements of the Armed Forces of Nigeria and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under section 428 (d) of the Criminal Code Laws, Cap. 34, Vol. II, Laws of Osun State of Nigeria, 2002.”
Meanwhile, the defendant pleaded not guilty to the allegations preferred against him.
Counsel to the defendant, A. C. Olaniyi, urged the court to grant his client bail pending the determination of the case, promising that he will not run away.
But, the Magistrate, Ishola Omisade, directed the counsel to file formal application for the bail of the defendant.
Magistrate Omisade ordered that the defendant be remanded in Ilesa correctional center and adjourned the case to December 21, for hearing.
