A missionary worker, Prophetess Felicia Olasunkanmi Oyelade has been sentenced to two years imprisonment by an Akure Chief Magistrate court for forging land documents and selling same to unsuspecting members of the public.
The fifty nine years old Oyelade who is the Prohetess in charge of a church situated on Ori Oke Basiri along Idanre road, Akure, had been standing trial on a one-count charge of forgery since 2013 following a report that she altered a land sales agreement between her late husband, Olasunkanmi Oyelade and the complainant in the matter, Isaac Babalola.
According to the prosecution counsel, Adewale Bamisile, the convict altered the original sales agreement to read 12 hectares of land purchased at cost of thirty five thousand naira instead of 7.871 hectares purchased for twenty five thousand five hundred naira by her late husband in the year 1977 by her late husband.
According to him,the lid blew off Prophetess Oyelade's shady deeds when she sold a portion of the land located around Priston college, along kilometre 4, Akure/Owo road, Akure to an unsuspecting buyer with the forged document after the same land had been sold to another person by the rightful owner and complainant in the matter, Mr. Isaac Babalola.
Oyelade however pleaded not guilty to the charge of forgery levelled against her, saying she was part of the transaction between her husband and the Babalola family when the land was bought.
She said the title documents were found in her husband's room after the demise of her husband and that she had being relying on that to sell the land.
After a plea for leniency because of the teeming dependants and the church being led by Oyelade by her lawyer, Dele Ibitayo, the presiding magistrate, Chief Magistrate Olubukola Kuye, who ordered that the original altered sales agreement, which had earlier been tendered as an exhibit before the court be destroyed, noted the the prosecution had proved the the case of forgery against the convict beyond reasonable doubt and sentenced her to two years imprisonment without an option of fine.
