Alleged Defilement: I Was Princess’ Benefactor And Lover – Actor, Baba Ijesha Says

 

Baba Ijesha

Olanrewaju James, the embattled actor, frequently recognised as Baba Ijesha, on Friday, March 4, 2022, recommended an Ikeja Unique Offences Court docket that comedienne, Damilola Adekoya, popularly normally referred to as Princess, is his former lover.

The News Agency of Nigeria assessments that the actor testified simply because the next defence witness at his demo for alleged defilement of a 14-year-outdated foster daughter of Princess.

Led in proof by the defence counsel, Dada Awosika, SAN, Baba Ijesha  described the character of the relationship he allegedly had with Princess.

He said, “We had been courting, my lord. She often slept in my area. We slept with each other. We each touched and kissed ourselves.”

Previously, the defendant advised the court docket how he allegedly satisfied the comedienne. In accordance to him, he received a telephone identify from Princess while he was an on-air character on Radio Lagos and LTV 8.

He additional, “She claimed she was my amount one particular enthusiast and asked me to endorse her on my programme. That was how we started.”

The defendant additional that in the midst of the connection, he satisfied Princess’ mother and she or he instructed him to treatment for her daughter, and that whilst her daughter was cussed, he may perhaps offer with her.

Narrating what transpired in 2014, the day he allegedly sexually molested Princess’s foster daughter with a automotive essential, he acknowledged that the comedienne experienced him that she was battling sick-health and wished some fruits. In accordance to him, he then took some fruits to her home.

“Immediately I opened the doorway to her house and discovered her 50 % bare. I then encouraged her the fruits had been contained in the automotive.

“Few minutes right after, the young lady (Princess’s foster daughter) arrived to choose the fruits from the auto.”

Below cross-evaluation by the Lagos Condition Director of the Directorate of Public Prosecutions, Dr Jide Martins, the defendant denied defiling the insignificant.

He, even so, admitted figuring out the child considering the fact that she was 7 a long time outdated.

“Princess is not my benefactor. She is the a single who benefitted from me,” he said.

Baba Ijesha, who at some extent broke down in tears in the program of the cross-evaluation, mentioned the proof he gave in courtroom docket in his defence was not an afterthought.

Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo adjourned the circumstance until March 11 for continuation of defence.