P.M.EXPRESS reports that it was the order of the Ondo Magistrate Court presided over by the Chief Magistrate, Mrs. Charity Adeyanju, who ordered the money to be paid to the ladies.
The aggrieved four sex workers, Glory David, Akere Bright, Valria Isaac and Ngozi Okoro, had dragged Damilola before the Court for having carnal knowledge of them and scamming them by refusing to pay the agreed amount for services they rendered to him.
Rather than pay them after the romp, he sent fake bank alert with the aim of defrauding them and escaped. It was later they realized that he had scammed them by obtaining sex without any payment.
The matter was reported to the Police and after several months, he was arrested and eventually detained at the station for interrogation over his conduct.
After interrogation, the Police found him culpable and subsequently charged him before the Court for the alleged offence under the Criminal Law of the State.
The prosecutor, Mr. Akao Moremi, informed the Court that the defendant committed the offence in October 2022 at Sabo Road, Ondo City.
The charge sheet read: ” You, Oluwafemi Damilola, sometime in October 2022 at Sabo Road Ondo in the Ondo Magisterial District did conduct your in a manner likely to cause the breach of peace by fraudulently having carnal knowledge of Glory David, Valria Isaac, Akere Bright, and Ngozi Okoro”.
“That you, Oluwafemi Damilola on the same date, time and place in the aforementioned Magisterial district did indecently assault Glory David, Valria Isaac, Akere Bright, and Ngozi Okoro by fraudulently and unlawfully having carnal knowledge of them with the pretence of sending them the sum of N45,000 which you failed to do so but willingly send them fake alert with aim of defrauding them sexually and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Sections 249 and 360 of the Criminal Code Cap 37 Volume 1 law of Ondo State of Nigeria, 2006.”
The Police prosecutor, who informed the Court that he would be calling five witnesses to testify in the case, applied for a date to enable him to study the case file.
But the defendant’s counsel, Mr. S. A. Iluyemi, told the Court that there was a move for settlement between the defendant and the complainants.
The Chief Magistrate, Mrs. Adeyanju, granted the application made by the defendant’s counsel and ordered that the money be paid to the complainants before the next day of adjournment.
She then adjourned the matter till 23rd June, 2023, for the final report of settlement.