Funke Akindele, Husband Get 14-Day Community Service Each

As a result of violating the Lagos State’s lockdown order to enable it gain an edge in the fight against covid-19, Actress, Funke Akindele, popularly known as Jenifa, and her musician husband, Abdul Rasheed Bello, JJC have been sentenced to 14 days community service each

Mrs. Aje Afunwa of the Lagos State Magistrates’ Court in Ogba, who pronounced the sentence, also imposed a fine of N100,000 each on the husband and wife.

The magistrate, who also ordered that they should be placed in self-isolation, added that they must submit compile the names and phone numbers of everyone who attended Bello’s birthday party and submit to the court.

Ekohotblog reports that the celebrity couple who were arraigned before Magistrate Aje Afunwa pleaded guilty to the one-count charge brought against them by the Attorney General of Lagos State, Moyosore Onigbanjo (SAN).

The Attorney General of Lagos State told the court that Funke and her husband Bello, flouted the directive of the Lagos state Governor when they gathered more than 20 people at their Lekki home.

The charge reads: “That you, Funke Akindele, Abdul Rasheed Bello on the 4th day of April 2020 at 9, Gbadamosi Close, Amen Estate, lbeju Lekki in the Lagos Magisterial District gathered at the aforementioned address with over twenty persons contrary to the social distancing directives of Mr Governor of Lagos State made pursuant to Regulation 8(1)(a) & (b) and 17(1)“) of the Lagos State Infectious Disease(Emergency Prevention)Regulation 2020 and thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 58 Public Health Law Cap P16 Vol.9 Laws of Lagos State, 2015.”

The couple who were represented by their lawyer, Abayomi Alagbada, however, pleaded for leniency after pleading guilty to the charge.

Alagbada said: I plead for leniency on the following grounds; both of them are first offenders, they are respectable members of society and have two young children”.

Following the defendants’ guilty plea, Onigbanjo asked the court to sentence them accordingly.