A Magistrate Court sitting in Osogbo on Thursday remanded two persons, Hassan Adeshina, 38, and Isiaka Mukaila, 20, for allegedly attacking staff of the Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company, IBEDC.
The defendants, arraigned in suit number MOS/625/2026, face a six-count charge bordering on conspiracy, assault, threat to life, conduct likely to cause breach of peace and rough handling.
According to the charge sheet, the defendants and others now at large, on October 21, 2026, attacked Mmadukwe Michael and Jimoh Rashidat at the IBEDC office located in the Oke-Ayepe area of Osogbo.
The prosecution alleged that the defendants threatened the IBEDC staff to surrender money realised for the company on that day.
The charge sheet partly read: “That you Hassan Adeshina, Isiaka Mukaila and others now at large, on the same date, time and place in the aforementioned magisterial district, did attack one Mmadukwe Michael, a staff of IBEDC Office, Oke-Ayepe, Osogbo and threatened him to give you the money they realised for the company by force and that if he refused, you will do him havoc.
“That you, Hassan Adeshina, Isiaka Mukaila and others now at large, on the same date, time and place in the aforementioned magisterial district, did attack one Jimoh Rashidat, a staff of IBEDC Office, Oke-Ayepe, Osogbo and threatened her to give you the money they realised for the company by force and that if she refused, you will do her havoc.
The defendants, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges.
In his ruling, Magistrate O.A. Daramola ordered that the defendants be remanded at the Ilesa Correctional Facility.
The matter was adjourned till December 1, 2026, for further hearing.
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