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Baba Ijesha Completes One Year Of 16-Year Prison Sentence
Popular Nollywood actor, Olanrewaju James, known by his stage name Baba Ijesha, has completed one year of his 16-year prison sentence.
His crime, child defilement, landed him in the Maximum Security Custodial Centre in Kirikiri, Lagos.
Baba Ijesha was convicted and sentenced on July 14, 2022, for four of the six charges levelled against him, including indecent treatment of a child, sexual assault, attempted sexual assault by penetration, and sexual assault by penetration.
The actor was first arrested on April 22, 2021, and later appeared before Magistrate P.E. Nwaka of the Yaba Magistrate Court in Lagos on July 16, 2021.
Subsequently, he was charged in the Special Offences and Domestic Violence Court in Ikeja, where Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo delivered the final judgment.
She found the defendant guilty on four of the six counts, announcing, “The defendant is hereby sentenced to five years imprisonment for count two, three years for count three, five years for count four, and three years for count five.”
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