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The Court of Appeal sitting in Lagos has acquitted and discharged the Medical Director of Optimal Cancer Care Foundation, Dr Olufemi Olaleye.

The court upturned the decision of the Lagos State Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court which had sentenced Dr Olaleye, to life imprisonment for defiling his wife’s 16-year-old niece.

Justice Olukayode Bada who read the lead judgment which was adopted by the two other justices on the panel held that the trial court erred in convicting Dr Olaleye based on “tainted” and ‘unreliable’ evidence of his estranged wife, Oluremi and the alleged survivor (names withheld).

The other members of the panel were Justice Mohammed Ibrahim Sirajo and Justice Folasade Ayodeji Ojo.

The appellate court said there were material contradictions in the evidence gathered by the prosecution which should not have been relied on by the lower court.

The court also faulted some other parts of the evidence of the prosecution during the trial, which was from a child forensic specialist, a medical doctor from the Mirabel centre and the investigating officer, which were found to be “worthless”

For the appellate court, the trial judge, Justice Rahman Oshodi also descended in the arena and interfered in the proceedings to bridge what it described as “the yawning gaps in the prosecution’s case”.

In the judgment, the court of appeal also queried why the prosecution failed to present material witnesses such as two family members who were said to have witnessed the appellants alleged confession.

The court added that a trial within trial ought to have been conducted during trial to verify the voluntariness of the appellant’s confessional statements while in police custody, especially as he said he made it under duress after he had been detained for six days.

The court of appeal determined all five issues of appeal against the prosecution and in favour of the appellant.

SalamRushdie:
Nigeria is devil's own country.. definitely money has changed hands

otipoju:
He who alleges must prove... and prove without reasonable doubt that a thing happened.

EmperorCaesar:
When you attack a country for a few things that happened in just one section of it, it doesnt make one sound intelligent and bright


This is a logical fallacy. I wonder what kinda school most of you graduated from

Afonja44:
Spoken like a true minor defiler

EmperorCaesar:
When you attack a country for a few things that happened in just one section of it, it doesnt make one sound intelligent and bright


This is a logical fallacy. I wonder what kinda school most of you graduated from

EmperorCaesar:
When you attack a country for a few things that happened in just one section of it, it doesnt make one sound intelligent and bright


This is a logical fallacy. I wonder what kinda school most of you graduated from

SalamRushdie:
Show me one single institution or sector in Nigeria that's working correctly? You think I made my deductions by this single case ? Hell No , I said what I said after years of looking critically at every single realm of existence in Nigeria and I can confirm it's the Nigeria is truly Devil's own country..you thinks it's an error that your country can't fix electricity supply for 60 years now?

You think it's an error no single city in Nigeria has pipe borne water?

You think it's an error no refinery is allowed to work here ?

You think is an error the whole country is littered with bad roads ?

You think it's an errors people can't get justice in Nigeria?

You think it's an error you have to pay the police to help you investigate a crime?

The country belongs to the DEVIL abeg

Orinechi:
If the appellant court had said otherwise, the judicial institution would have been working?

Afonja44:
Spoken like a true minor defiler

SalamRushdie:
Show me one single institution or sector in Nigeria that's working correctly? You think I made my deductions by this single case ? Hell No , I said what I said after years of looking critically at every single realm of existence in Nigeria and I can confirm it's the Nigeria is truly Devil's own country..you thinks it's an error that your country can't fix electricity supply for 60 years now?

You think it's an error no single city in Nigeria has pipe borne water?

You think it's an error no refinery is allowed to work here ?

You think is an error the whole country is littered with bad roads ?

You think it's an errors people can't get justice in Nigeria?

You think it's an error you have to pay the police to help you investigate a crime?

The country belongs to the DEVIL abeg