Court remands 8 men in Kirikiri for allegedly burning police station
An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court on Friday remanded eight men for allegedly setting Makoko Police Station on fire.
The court ordered that they should be kept at the Kirikiri Correctional Centre pending advice from the state Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP).
The defendants are Ebenezer Ayah, 27; Biola Rawa, 20; Jacob Safaru, 21; Yusuf Olowookere, 21; Gideon Agbe, 18; Benua Ado, 24; Joseph Onyebuchi, 28; and Sunday Philip, 31.
The defendants, whose addresses were not given, are facing a four-count charge of conspiracy, unlawful assembly, breach of peace and arson.
Earlier, the prosecutor, Christopher John, told the court that the defendants committed the offences with some others at large, on August 29 at 10.00 a.m. at Makoko, Lagos.
Mr John said the defendants armed themselves with petrol, knives, cutlasses and other dangerous weapons, and unlawfully set Makoko Police Station on fire.
He said the defendants conducted themselves in a manner likely to cause a breach of public peace, adding that they belonged to a secret society called Eiye confraternity.
The Magistrate, K.A. Ariyo, who did not take their pleas, ordered the case file be duplicated and sent to the DPP for advice and adjourned the case until December 30 for mention.
(NAN)
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