Court remands four men for 'unlawful possession of firearms'

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An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Wednesday ordered that four men be remanded in a correctional centre for alleged unlawful possession of firearms.

The police charged Bashiru Shittu, 39; Hassan Omobolaji, 38; Korode Oguntoyinbo, 22 and Abiodun Benson, 23 with conspiracy, belonging to an unlawful society and illegal possession of firearms.

Magistrate A.S. Odusanya, who did not take the plea of the suspects, ordered that they should be remanded in Kirikri Correctional Centre. Odusanya directed the police to send the case file to the state Director of Public Prosecutions for advice.Earlier, the Prosecution Counsel, Insp. Emmanuel Ajayi, told the court that the suspects and others at large committed the offence on Oct. 14 at Ibeshe, Ikorodu, Lagos State.The police, he said, received a distress call from members of the community that some cultists were attacking themselves.

The offence, he said, violates the provisions of sections 42, 330 and 411 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015. Newsmen report that Section 42 prescribes three years’ jail term for belonging to an unlawful society while section 330 attracts seven years of unlawful possession of firearms.

 

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