Four women have been arraigned before the Ikpoba-Okha Area Customary Court sitting at Oregbeni over possession and sale of prohibited donkey meat, Our Benin City Correspondent reports.
President of the court, Mrs. Elizabeth Dele-Ogbeide who ruled on the no-case-submission made by counsel to the accused persons, Osaretin George Izevbuwa said there wasn’t enough evidence linking the women; Caro Idedia, Margaret Irorere, Ruth Ohagbon and Rose Odia with the offence.
The prosecuting counsel, Joseph Ebosereme submitted that the prosecution had laid grounds tying the women to the offence charged which their counsel was unable to untie, emphasizing that the accused women were caught displaying and selling the obnoxious meat to unsuspecting members of the public at Oregbeni market, Ikpoba Hill, Benin City, on the 4th of February 2010. An offence which he submitted is punishable under section 134 of the Public Health Law cap 5 vol II laws of the Defunct Bendel State of Nigeria 1976 as applicable in Edo state.
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