Bayelsa courtroom convicts Diri’s aide of assault

The Bayelsa State Excessive Court docket has convicted Governor Douwoye Diri’s Senior Particular Assistant on Public Duties, Mr. Prudent Ogorogoro, on assault prices.

Ogorogoro was arrested on February 20, 2024 for allegedly assaulting an individual from the Ubong Effiong Ubek tribe at Agudama-Epie in Yenagoa Native Authorities Space of ​​Bayelsa State.

The sufferer was stated to have misplaced consciousness after the governor’s assistant assaulted him.

Ogorogoro was then charged earlier than Justice IA Urukari and charged with 5 counts of “conspiracy, tried homicide, assault occasioning hurt, severe assault and culpable injury”.

However he pleaded not responsible to all prices towards him. However the prosecution, in an try to show the case, referred to as six witnesses and introduced seven paperwork.

Delivering his ruling within the case on Tuesday, Choose Urukari stated the prosecution had confirmed the case of assault on the governor’s aide past cheap doubt.

However the choose dismissed the three prices of tried homicide, saying they’d not been confirmed.

In a letter on behalf of his shopper, the defendant’s lawyer, Abadiofoni, pleaded that the courtroom ought to mood justice with mercy as a result of the defendant was a first-time offender.

Nonetheless, the prosecuting counsel, DJ Olubowale, objected to the defendant’s counsel taking the allotments and stated the Supreme Court docket had settled the problem that the correct particular person to take the allotments was the defendant himself.

In his speech, Ogorogoro appealed to the courtroom to mood justice with mercy, saying he was the only breadwinner for his younger household and aged mom.

In handing down his judgement, Justice Urukari sentenced him to 3 years imprisonment with an choice of a wonderful of 250,000 naira for the primary rely and an additional three years imprisonment with an choice of a wonderful of 250,000 naira for the third rely, to run concurrently.

In sentencing Ogorogoro, the choose stated he was moved by the defendant’s present of regret and the truth that he was a first-time offender.