Seun Osamaye, the Ondo State Commissioner for Women Affairs, has been arrested and placed under remand by an Akure Magistrate’s Court due to an alleged attack on Chief Magistrate Temitope Alphonso.
The magistrate was purportedly on official business when the event happened on the grounds of the Ondo State Ministry of Women Affairs.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the police accused Osamaye of “assault,” citing verbal and physical abuse in court filings after the commissioner purportedly rendered an unfavorable decision.
Osamaye was not present in court on Wednesday, but her attorney, A.K. Adewusi, told the judge that she was being treated at a hospital in Ilara-Mokin, the state’s Ifedore Local Government Area.
The presiding magistrate allowed the lawyer’s request for a ninety-minute stand-down so that he could provide a medical report.
When things resumed, Adewusi submitted a hospital report stating that the commissioner was receiving treatment.
Suleiman Adebayo, the prosecutor, contested the medical document’s veracity, nevertheless.
Magistrate Damilola Sekoni dismissed the report in his decision, citing a lack of crucial information.
Sekoni declared, “The report did not indicate that the commissioner was on hospital admission or medically unfit to attend court.”
He added that the paperwork was deemed inadequate because it did not provide the time and date of the purported hospital stay.
Magistrate Sekoni ordered the commissioner’s immediate arrest and custody in a correctional facility, citing disrespect for court proceedings.
After that, the case was postponed until January 12 for another hearing.uyj7
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