Kotun majistare a jihar Edo ta daure wani dan siyasa mai suna Paul Okungbowa kan zargin bata suna da cin zarafi. Okungbowa, wanda ya yi takara a zaɓen gwamnan Edo na 2024 karkashin jam’iyyar YPP, an daure shi har tsawon watanni shida a gidan yari.
Ana zargin Okungbowa da kiran wata mata da karuwa a gaban mijinta, wanda kotun ta ce hakan na iya jawo husuma. Hukuncin ya shafi wasu malamai uku daga makarantar Calvary Crown Academy da Okungbowa ke jagoranta a birnin Benin. An yanke hukunci ga malaman Blessing Osarodion, Egharevba Esosa, da Isioma Nimen tare da Okungbowa.
Alkalin kotun, Caroline Oghuma, ta jagoranci shari’ar inda ta ba wadanda aka tuhuma zabin biyan tara maimakon ɗaurin gidan yari. Rahoton ya nuna cewa an zargi Okungbowa da zagin Blessing Aigbudu, wata uwa da ke da yara biyu a makarantarsa, a ranar 8 ga Satumbar 2023.
Hukuncin kotun ya jawo ce-ce-ku-ce a jihar, musamman ganin cewa Okungbowa yana neman kujerar gwamna a jihar Edo. Wannan lamari na nuna yadda furucin da ake yi a cikin al’umma ke iya jawo rudani da kuma shafar harkokin siyasa, musamman ga wadanda ke neman mukamai a gwamnatin jiha.
A yayin da ake ci gaba da nazarin wannan lamari, ana fatan samun ingantaccen tsari a fannin siyasa da zaman lafiya a jihar Edo.