Man, 51, Sent To Prison For Standing As Surety For Son

CYRIACUS IZUEKWE

A 51-year old man, Sunday Adebayo, has landed in trouble after he went to the Igando Police Division and stood as surety for his son, Felix Adebayo, who was involved in a criminal matter in Lagos State.

P.M.EXPRESS reports that the son, Felix, having been released from Police custody, ran away and asked his father sort himself out with the Police because he would not go back there due to the serious evidence against him, which would land him in prison.

Felix was arrested and detained at the station for allegedly stealing a Toyota Camry car 2005 model worth about N2.5m belonging to one Akinyemali Christopher.

The father, Sunday, thought that his son, Felix was innocent, went to the station and asked the Police to release his son to him and that anytime they wanted the son, he would bring him.

The Police granted his request with the agreement that he would provide him when demanded, unknown to him the son actually committed the alleged offence and ran away.

The Police later asked the father to produce Felix. It was then he told the Police that Felix ran away, had disconnected every communication with him and he cannot provide him.

He was then arrested and subsequently charged before the Ejigbo Magistrates Court for perversion of justice by failing to provide Felix, who he stood as surety for at the station.
When he was arraigned, he pleaded not guilty. 

The prosecutor, Inspector Simeon Njue, asked the Court to give a short date for hearing since he pleaded not guilty to enable the Police to prove that he actually committed the alleged offence.

The Presiding Magistrate, Mrs. A.S.Okubule, granted him bail in the sum of N100,000 with two sureties in like sum. 
However, he was remanded in correctional centre at Kirikiri pending when he will perfect the bail conditions while the matter was adjourned till 22nd December, 2021 for mention.

All efforts by the family to make Felix to show up so that his father will be released from custody have failed as Felix insisted he would not like to go to prison rather his father should remain there.