The suspects were said to had been maltreating the children by beating them with belts, canes and horse whip.
The Iyaganku Magistrates’ Court in Ibadan has ordered Saheed Moshood, 31, to be remanded in prison custody for killing a minor.
The petroleum marketers said they were shutting down operations “not because we are on strike, but because we can no longer do business under this condition.”
The Magistrate admitted the defendants to bail in the sum of N300,000 each with two sureties in like sum.
“The policeman has not been arrested because he ran away. He has been identified. He is one of us at the state command headquarters.”
The police said the men and others at large burnt the houses belonging to Yinusa Adamu and also caused the death of a housewife.
Sellers blamed higher cost of rams on insecurity in the North from where they are brought and high cost of transportation.
