An Ondo State High Court sitting in Akure, the state capital, has ordered the state government to pay N25 million in damages to Mrs Opeyemi Adegboyega over the disappearance of her child from a state-owned juvenile home.
In the judgment delivered by Justice Oluyemi Osadebay, a copy of which was made available to PUNCH Online on Tuesday, the court held that the totality of the evidence presented by the defendants (the government) was “unbelievable, unconscionable, unsubstantiated, untrue and untenable.”
Adegboyega had sued the Ondo State Government over the disappearance of her infant son from the custody of one of the state’s juvenile homes in Akure, which is under the supervision of the Ondo State Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development.
The claimant, who was receiving treatment for depression and schizophrenia at the Ondo State Neuropsychiatric Hospital, had her three-month-old son taken into the custody of the Ministry of Women
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