BEVERLY HILLS, May 17, (THEWILL) – The lawyer to Nollywood actor, Olanrewaju James Omiyinka, better known as Baba Ijesha, Adesina Ogunlana, says his client is traumatised in police detention and should be released on bail.
Ogunlana said that at his last meeting with him, Omiyinka looked distressed and emaciated and limped in one leg.
THEWILL recalls that Baba Ijesha has been in police custody after his arrest in April for allegedly defiling the 14-year-old foster child of comedian Princess.
In a letter addressed to the Lagos Police Commissioner, Ogunlana disclosed that his client should be released on bail, and that his client’s Nollywood colleague, Yomi Fabiyi, was ready to stand surety for him.
Ogunlana in his letter stated that the accused had become abnormally weak and lean in detention.
He said: “We are aware that a piece of legal advice on our client’s matter has been issued about two weeks ago, disclosing prospective charges of bailable character.
“From all indications, the investigation has been concluded in his matter and it is inconceivable that the issuance of legal advice will now be a basis for the denial of bail as you have been widely reported in the Press to have claimed.
“We submit that the continuous detention of Mr. Olanrewaju James Omiyinka at your SCID Panti Yaba facility, for about thirty days now, in our respectful view, is in gross breach of his fundamental human rights as cognisable under the 1999 constitution the grand norm of the nation’s legal architecture.
“As of today when I met with Omiyinka in the company of his thespian colleague and ready surety, Mr Yomi Fabiyi, he appeared traumatised, emaciated, and walked with a limp in his right leg. May I assure you, sir, that Mr Omiyinka is not a flight risk and he is prepared to face trial.”
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