Correctional facility
By CHIDINMA EWUNONU-ALUKO
An Iyaganku Magistrates’ Court, Ibadan, on Thursday, ordered the remand of 10 persons in a correctional facility over alleged armed robbery and murder.
The defendants include Sheriff Lawal, 27, Lawal Bashit, 23, Oyewale Sodiq, 30, Akeem Ogunyemi, 41, and Kazeem Afolayan, 40.
Others are Akeem Raji, 37, Olabode Hammed, 25, Yusuf Lekan, 26, Ayomide John, 23 and Samuel Okezie, 32.
They are facing a six-count charge bordering on conspiracy, armed robbery and murder.
The Magistrate, Mrs Gladys Oladele, did not take the plea of the defendants for want of jurisdiction.
She directed the police to return the case file to the Director of Public Prosecution for legal advice.
She adjourned the case until July 21 for mention.
The Prosecutor, Sgt. Samuel Owolabi, told the court that the defendants committed the offences on May 15, at about 9.30 p.m. at Oak Hotel, around Moniya, Ibadan.
Owolabi said the defendants robbed one Shuaibu Adam of the sum of N100,000, while armed with sticks and cutlasses.
He said the defendants also unlawfully caused the death of one Abdul Isah, 23, by beating him with sticks and inflicted injury all over Adam’s body.
He said the offences contravened Sections 516 and 319 of the Criminal Laws of Oyo State, 2000. (NAN)
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