The Osun State Ministry of Justice has taken over prosecution of the case of a 29-year-old member of the National Youth Service Corps , Fasade Ezekiel Adesoji, who, allegedly, sexually assaulted a female undergraduate of Osun State University, Osogbo .
The Guardian learnt that the student lived off-campus and had gone to Adesoji’s apartment with her friend on the night of Friday, February 16, 2024. According to a witness account, it was after a vigilante officer in the area had visited the defendant’s apartment with a gun and shot into the air, that the suspect opened the door and freed the victim in the wee hours of Saturday, February 17.The police docked Adesoji, a Microbiology graduate of Igbajo Polytechnic on a four count-charge bordering on sexual assault, indecent assault, and unlawful detainment of the victim at an Osogbo Magistrate’s Court.
Magistrate Oyindamola Daramola granted the accused bail in the sum of N500,000 with two sureties in the same amount. Two months after the Central Bank of Nigeria handed over 2.15 million bags of fertiliser to the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, the ministry has yet to begin distribution of the farm input.