Former Edo Governorship Candidate Sentenced To Six months Imprisonment For Calling Married Woman Pr0stitute

Paul Okugbowa, the candidate of the Young Progressives Party, YPP, in the September 2024 governorship election in Edo State, has been sentenced to six months imprisonment by the Chief Magistrate Caroline Oghuma of the Oredo Magisterial District for calling a married woman, Mrs Blessing Aigbudu a pr0stitute.

Okugbowa, 39, the proprietor of Calvary Crown Academy, Benin City, was sentenced with an option of N100,000 fine alongside three teachers in the school.

The court sentenced two of the teachers to one-year imprisonment, while the other one was slammed with three three-month jail term.

The convicted teachers are Blessing Osarodion, 27, Egharevba Esosa, 29, and Isioma Nimen, 35.

While Blessing Osarodion and Egharevba Edosa were sentenced to one year imprisonment with an option of N100,000 fine, each, on two counts, Isioma Nimen was sentenced to three months imprisonment with an option of N50,000 fine on one count.

The teachers were convicted for negligence and abandonment of two pupils in their care. Osarodion and Esosa were sentenced on each of the two counts bothering on negligence, leading to the injury of a six-year-old pupil, Salma Aigbudu.

The court, however, convicted Nimen for unlawfully abandoning another pupil, two-year-old Zuri Aigbudu.

The offences in which the convicts were arraigned contravened sections 167(2), 412, 270, 412 and 267 of the Criminal Laws of Edo 2022.

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