Mutiu Ogundare the ‘Baale’ of Shangisha who faked his own kidnap in 2017 will spend 15 years in jail, an Ikeja High Court passed the sentence on Tuesday. Presiding judge Justice Hakeem Oshodi handed down the judgement on Ogundare and his brother Opeyemi Mohammed, they had been arraigned on three counts of conspiracy and fake abduction. “I have considered the allocutus of the defence counsels. However, it is in the view of this court that the defendants showed no remorse during trial. “In fact, the first defendant tried to buy his way out of the court. A lesson has to be thought of to serve as a deterrent to others. “The defendants are hereby sentenced to 10 years for count one without an option of fine, one year to count two with an option of N200,000 and 15 years to count three without an option of fine. “The sentencing shall run concurrently from the day they had been arrested,” Oshodi said.
Former Lagos State governor Akinwunmi Ambode in July 2017 had dismissed Ogundare as the Baale of Shangisha, after he was accused of staging his own kidnap.
