By Michael Ofulue, Osogbo

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The Osun State Police command has dragged a commercial sex worker before a Senior Magistrate’s Court sitting in Osogbo, for grievous assault on her client.

The prosecutor, Corporal O. Oluokun, informed the court that Oluwapemisire committed the offence on April 28, 2024, at about 9:00am in Osogbo, by biting and cutting off the tongue of her client, Abayomi Oshodi.

The charge read in part, “That you, Oluwapemisire Ewunuga, on April 28, 2024, at about 9:00am at Osogbo in the Osogbo Magisterial District, did cause grievous harm to one Abayomi Oshodi, by biting and cutting off his tongue and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 335 of Criminal Code Cap 34 Vol, II Laws of Osun State of Nigeria, 2002.”

A lawyer, Tunbosun Oladipupo, who was in the courtroom when the case was called, opted to appear for the female defendant.

However, Oluwapemisire pleaded not guilty to the charge.

Efforts by Oladipupo to secure her on bail failed as the presiding Senior Magistrate A. O. Odeleye, ordered that the defendant be remanded in the police custody and adjourned the matter till May 23, for consideration of her bail

Earlier before the case was taken to the court on Wednesday, the commercial sex worker, Oluwapemisire Ewunuga, had confessed to have chopped off the tongue of her male client, while they were engrossed in romantic kissing.

The 31-year-old woman (defendant), who resides in Ijebu-Jesa town in the state, was invited by Abayomi to meet him at a hotel in Osogbo for sexual intercourse after promising to pay her the sum of N20,000.

Police sources hinted that the fair-complexioned lady arrived Osogbo on April 28, 2024 and met Abayomi in the hotel.

She disclosed that she saw all kinds of hard drugs in her client’s room, claiming that Abayomi administered Colorado, cannabis sativa otherwise known as Indian hemp and other dangerous substance to her to make her gain ‘highness’ so that they could enjoy their sexual intercourse.

According to the police, Abayomi also took drugs before both of them started kissing, frolicking and making love on the bed.

That morning of the next day, April 29, 2024, when a staff of the hotel who came to clean the room discovered blood stains on the mouths and body of the duo and that a part of Abayomi’s tongue had already fallen on the bed.

The hotel staff reportedly told the manager who, immediately, invited police officers to the scene.

It was gathered that Oluwapemisire and Abayomi had lost consciousness due to overdose of suspected hard drugs they consumed before the sex romp.

A team of police officers who came to the hotel was said to have resuscitated them after pouring buckets of water on them.

A police officer who carried out the preliminary investigation, said Abayomi, who lives in Ilesa, abandoned his family members and went to Osogbo to meet the commercial sex worker popularly known as “Olosho.”