Ondo Monarch, Chiefs Get Bail As Govt Takes Over Prosecution

Self-styled monarch in Ijare in Ifedore local government, Adekolajo Aladeseyi, and two chiefs have been granted bail from the state Police Command by a Chief Magistrate Court in Akure, the state capital.

The court granted bail to the accused in the sum of one million and sureties in like sum.

Aladeseyi and two chiefs, Fasore Lawrence and Adegbenro Akanle, were ordered to be remanded in custody by a Chief Magistrate Court for instigating a crisis in Ijare, Ifedore local government area of the state.

The self-appointed monarch and others were arraigned before the court by the Police for allegedly installing Aladeseyi as the monarch of the vacant stool.

The charges preferred against the suspects by the Police Prosecutor, Babatunde Ajiboye, accused the suspects of conduct likely to cause breach of peace and deliberately flouting the state’s chief law.
According to the charge sheet “That you Adekolajo Aladeseyi, Fasore Lawrence and Adegbenro Akanle and others at large on the 15th day of April, 2025 at about 1:00 am at Ijare town within the Jurisdiction of the Honourable Court did conspire together to commit misdemeanor to wit conduct likely to cause breach of public peace and thereby committed an offense contrary to and punishable under Section 517 (A) of the Criminal Code Cap 37 Vol. 1 Laws of Ondo State, Nigeria, 2006,” among others.

When the charge sheet was read, they pleaded not guilty to the three-count charge.
Counsel to the suspects, Mr Adelanke Akinrata, who prayed the court to grant bail to them in liberal terms, noted that the application is premised on section 36 sub 5 of the 1999 constitution as amended.
Granting the bail application, Chief Magistrate Jaiyeola Solomon Ogungade said the sureties must produce tax clearance for three years and be people of good character.

The court said the sureties must swear to an affidavit of means.

Meanwhile, the Deputy Director of the Directorate of Public Prosecution (DPP), Mrs E.T. Kolade-Obanijesu, said the office of the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice has taken over the case’s prosecution.