Curtis Eghosa ,Senior Special Assistant To Gov Adams Oshiomhole Charged To Court For Publishing Article Against Own Boss

According to information available

A Senior Special Assistant on Media to Governor Adams Oshiomhole, Mr. Curtis Eghosa Ugbo, has been arraigned before an Oredo Magistrate Court for allegedly publishing an article online against his boss.

Ugbo, aged 47, was also arraigned for unlawful possession of firearms.

Police said his action was likely to disturb public peace.

The article published by Ugbo, according to the charge sheet, had the caption, “What is wrong with my boss, the ground breaking of Edo State own Cement industry in partnership with a private company under Government Public Private Partnership (PPP) and stakeholders, no state House members or Speaker and National Assembly members presence notice.”

“Is Edo State now a personal business of Comrade Adams Oshiomhole?”

Ugbo pleaded not guilty to the three count charges preferred against him.

Police Prosecutor, ASP Sylvester Omor, informed the Court that the accused committed the offence on April 2, at No. 2b, Ugbor road Benin City.

Omor told the Court that the accused unlawfully had in his possession a double barrel gun without a duly acquired valid license.

The offenses contravened section 59 (1), 249 (d) and 430 (2) of the criminal code cap. 48, vol. II laws of the defunct Bendel state of Nigeria 1976, as now applicable in Edo.

The Magistrates’, Mrs C.A. Nwoha, granted the accused person to bail in sum of N100,000 and a surety in like sum who must be have a landed property.

Nwoha adjourned the case till April 26, for hearing

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