I set Baba Ijesha up – Princess

<p>Comedienne, Damilola Adekoya aka Princess, today explained to the Lagos State Special Offences Court how she set up her embattled colleague, Olanrewaju ‘Baba Ijesha’ Omiyinka.</p>, <p>Baba Ijesha was arrested in April for alleged sexual assault involving a minor.</p>, <p>On Monday, Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo admitted the Closed-circuit Television (CCTV) footage which captured the incident as evidence.</p>, <p>Explaining how the CCTV was set up in the house, Princess said: “The CCTV man, Mr. Brown set up the CCTV in the house. He owns a surveillance company. I don’t know the name, I only know Mr. Brown. I didn’t know the make of the CCTV camera used.</p>, <p></p>, <p>“Immediately I moved to the house, my landlord advised me to put a CCTV in the house, after asking for the price, I felt it was too high,” she told the court.</p>, <p>“On Monday, 19th April 2021, I invited Baba Ijesha to my house for a script conference, which he did. Unknown to him, there were CCTV planted in my house.”</p>, <p>When Princess was asked why she left the foster daughter with Baba Ijesha despite the prior allegation, she said: “The initial plan was to confront him but in the process, I knew it could get violent, the installation was to capture if the scene would get violent.</p>, <p>“I did not believe he (Baba Ijesha) would repeat the same function now that she is grown.”</p>, <p></p>