Fuel souvenir: Court sentences Lagos socialite to two-year jail term

A Lagos-based socialite, Ms. Chidinma Ogbulu, has been sentenced to two years in prison for distributing petrol as a souvenir during a party.

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She was sentenced by the Lagos State Special Offences (Mobile) Court sitting at Oshodi, in a ruling passed by Chief Magistrate Kehinde Ogundare.

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The socialite was convicted and sentenced following her guilty plea on Thursday and some evidence by the prosecution.

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The conviction is coming after Ogbulu was arrested and arraigned last Monday.

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She had in a viral video shared kegs of fuel as a souvenir during an event she hosted at Havilah Events Centre, Victoria Island, on March 4.

Subsequently, she was arraigned on ‘four counts bordering on conduct likely to cause a breach of peace, endangering human life by distributing combustible matter in a public gathering, intent to do harm to another and unlawfully carrying on the business of storage and containerising petroleum product without a permit’.

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Delivering judgement in the case on Thursday, Ogundare sentenced Ogbulu to three months’ imprisonment or a N15, 000 fine on counts one of the three charges, and one-year imprisonment or N500,000 fine on the second count.

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The chief magistrate also sentenced the socialite to one year in prison or a N500,000 fine on the third count.

 

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