A Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos State, has further remanded the Chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, Lagos Island Branch B, Azeez Lawal, for alleged murder.
Forty-eight-year-old Lawal (aka, Kunle Poly) is charged with conspiracy to commit murder and membership of an unlawful society.
He is standing trial along with another, Adekanbi Wahab, aged 38.
Chief Magistrate Linda Balogun Monday ordered that the two be remanded at the Ikoyi Custodial Centre, Lagos State.
Although the charges were read to the defendants, their pleas were not taken.
Balogun therefore ordered that they should be further remand for 30 days, pending advice from the Lagos State Directorate of Public Prosecution.
Balogun’s order followed an application by the prosecutor, Morufu Animashaun, attached to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) Panti.
Balogun held that there was merit in the application.
Recall that the defendants were, on January 27, remanded for an initial period of 30 days.
He remanded them pending further investigations by the police.
The alleged offences contravene Section 233 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015, and Section 3 of the Anti-cultism Law of Lagos State, 2021.
The court adjourned the case until March 28 for mention.
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