waju James, popularly known as Baba Ijesha, to five years imprisonment for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old minor.
In her judgment, the trial judge, Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of the Lagos State Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Court, on July 14, 2022, sentenced Baba Ijesha to five years imprisonment over the sexual assault of the minor. Dissatisfied, Baba Ijesha, through his counsel Mr. Kayode Olabiran, approached the appeal court, praying it to allow the appeal and set aside his conviction and sentence.
Justice Ojo, however, held that on the event that occurred on April 19, 2021, the evidence of PW1 was an eyewitness account, adding that this account remains credible and one of the most effective ways to establish the commission of an offence. “The law is certain that there is no other evidence other than admission in commission of an offence,” the judge said in her ruling.
“Moreover, PW2’s body language supported by her oral testimony and documentary evidence clearly shows that she attempted to distance herself from the appellant. The most inference to draw from from appellant’s action in searching the entire house immediately after PW1 left with her visitors and sexually assaulting PW2 is that he intended to commit the offence, and did commit the offence.
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