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Adeyemi and Divine Adegoke, together with their neighbor Deji Ajayi, were charged with assaulting three police officers and Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company employees while they were performing their official responsibilities on Thursday.

According to the charge sheet for the defendants, specifics of the offenses they committed show that they carried out the crimes on March 31, 2023, at No. 93 Ayelaka Area, Dada Estate, Osogbo.

The IBEDC employees Sayo Owaniyi and Adetunji Adetona, as well as Inspectors Ariyo Oyeleke, Muritala Kazeem, and Police Corporal Femi Adisa, were allegedly assaulted by the defendants while discharging their official responsibilities.

The charge read, “That you, Adegoke Divine, Adegoke Adeyemi and Ajayi Deji on March 31, 2023, in the morning at No. 93, Ayelaka Area, Dada Estate, Osogbo in the Osogbo Magisterial District, did conspire to commit felony to wit serious assault, assault and threat to the life of one Owaniyi Sayo and Adetunji Adetona of IBEDC Osogbo and police officers and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 516 of the Criminal Code Cap 34 Vol. II Laws of Osun State of Nigeria 2002.

“That you, Adegoke Divine, Adegoke Adeyemi and Ajayi Deji on the same date and place at the aforementioned magisterial district did seriously assault one Owaniyi Sayo and Adetunji Adetona who are IBEDC staff members of Osogbo Branch and also Inspector Ariyo Oyeleke, Inspector Muritala Kazeem and PC. Adisa Femi while performing their duty by beating and stoning them and thereby committed an offence contrary to section 383 and punishable under Section 356 of the criminal code Cap 34 Vol. II Laws of Osun State of Nigeria 2002.

“That you, Ajayi Deji, on the same date and place at the aforementioned magisterial district did attempt to kill one Owaniyi Sayo and Adetunji Adetona with a dog and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 383 and punishable under Section 320 of the Criminal Code Cap 34 Vol. II Laws of Osun State of Nigeria 2002.”

To all three counts, the defendants entered a not guilty plea.

Divine was granted bail in the amount of N200,000 with a single guarantor by the presiding magistrate, Olusegun Ayilara, while the other two were each given bail in the amount of N500,000 with two sureties.

A hearing on the subject was then postponed until June 15, 2023 by Ayilara.

The family of Tope Olorunfemi, 35, who was killed by a vengeful mob in Akure, Ondo state, for allegedly killing four people by crushing them to death, claimed that their loved one was not Yahoo boy, an online scammer.

The car in which the deceased’s son had the unfortunate accident was purchased by the deceased’s father, according to the deceased’s mother, Mrs. Mojisola Olorunfemi, who made the disclosure in Akure.

She grieved that she was powerless to stop her kid from being lynched.

She stated; “Tope was never a Yahoo boy but a gentle boy. He moved to Lagos after his education, where he got a vehicle and registered as a Uber driver to make ends meet.

“His father later bought a vehicle for him about three years ago for the Uber driving business.

“He was in Akure with his wife for the Easter celebration and I noticed he had become lean and asked them to stay back for a week before returning to Lagos when they said the stress in Lagos is much for him.

“They had parked their belongings in the car including his wife and child and left them in the car since they have agreed to stay behind.

” So the clothes in his car belong to his wife and child and he was never a ritualist or Yahoo boy.”

“On Monday morning it was the father that called me and explained to me what happened and I rushed there only to meet my son in his pool of blood.

“I tried to save him but the mob turned against me and prevented me from rescuing him.

\I was there looking at him helplessly while his siblings could also not stop the mob action and they even hit me with planks.

“All these claims that some fetish objects were found in his car were nothing but tissues of lies.

“The piggy bank found in his car belongs to the wife and not a small coffin or casket as they claimed.

“My son has been a hustler since his childhood. He had engaged in many menial jobs like bricklaying and another job to make ends meet before embarking on this Uber business”

The bereaved mother pleaded with the state government, to ensure that those behind the mob action are brought to book.

” The state government should help bring those behind my son’s death to book, those who kill by the sword would surely die by sword too. Those who killed Temitope should be made to face justice.

The deceased’s wife, Mosunmola Bosede Olorunfemi, also spoke, stating that her husband was not a Yahoo boy and requesting an investigation into his death from the state government and the police.

“I want to appeal to the state government and the police to investigate my husband’s death. The government should do something about the killing of a youth in the country. My husband is a bolt driver not a Yahoo boy”