Oyogist has learned that a student of lagos State University (LASU) Afeez Ogunbowale was sentenced to 21 years jail term by an Ikeja Special Offences Court.
Afeez pleaded guilty to the charges labelled against him, including armed robbery and raping two fellow LASU students.
Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo said the prosecution proved its case beyond reasonable doubt.
“The defendant is hereby sentenced to five years’ imprisonment for conspiracy, 21 years’ imprisonment each for counts of armed robbery and 21 years’ imprisonment each for counts of rape,” she ruled.
“The sentences are to run concurrently,” she said.Ogunbowale who was suspended by LASU over the case, wept profusely at the dock on hearing the sentencing.The prosecution team led by Mrs O.A Bajulaiye-Bishi said the defendant committed the offences alongside others who are at large, on April 18, 2018, at the Okokomaiko area of Lagos.
“The defendant and his accomplices, while armed with a gun, knife, machete and bottle, robbed the two students in their off campus accommodation.
“They were robbed of their phones, power bank, earpiece, gold chain and N1, 200.“The defendant and one of his accomplices who is still at large had unlawful sexual intercourse with the complainants.
“The offences contravene Sections 260(1) and 297(2)(a) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015,” she said Further.
