Panic As Police Tender Python As Exhibit 
Published on February 10, 2012 by pmnews · 13 CommentsThere was drama and pandemonium as lawyers, litigants and policemen scampered to safety at Ejigbo Magistrate’s Court in Lagos, Southwest Nigeria, yesterday, when an investigating police officer, IPO, tendered a live python as an exhibit.
The prosecutor, Oladejo Balogun also refused to accept the snake as exhibit.
He quickly made an oral application asking the court to order the police to return it to their custody till the next adjourned date, saying that he had no place to keep it and he does not know the type of food the snake eats.
The police in turn said that they were tired of keeping the snake since the arrest of the suspects last Saturday and asked the court to accept and keep it as an exhibit. The police had brought two suspected fraudsters, Kayode Oseni, 42 and Jamiu Adeyemi, 37 along with the snake as the exhibit which they allegedly planted in a house of a complainant, Alhaji Jelili Kuku to defraud him.
P.M.NEWS gathered that the defendants had gone to Kuku’s house at 14, Foursquare Street, Ikotun, Lagos and planted the snake and pretended to be praying for him.
They blamed all his woes on the demon inside his house. After their arrest, they allegedly confessed to the police that they took the action to defraud Kuku.
They had hoped to bring the snake from where they hid it in his house while they pretended to be praying for him in order to extort money from him.
They had earlier allegedly extorted N40,000 from him to buy a ram for sacrifice, which they claimed would save his life.
However, they were unlucky as Kuku saw them while they were planting the snake. He invited the police who arrested them.
The defendants were docked on a two-count charge of fraud and stealing contrary to and punishable under sections 419 and 390 of the Criminal Code Cap 17 Vol. 2 Laws of Lagos State, 2003.
They pleaded not guilty. The presiding magistrate, Mrs. M. B. Folami granted them bail in the sum of N500,000 each with two sureties each in like sum.
The court ordered that the defendants be remanded in prison custody pending when they will fulfill their bail conditions.
Mrs. Folami also ordered the police to return the snake to their exhibit room till the next adjourned date. The matter was adjourned till 14 March 2012 for mention.
—Cyriacus Izuekwe
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hw sure ar we dt d snake wl nt die or escape frm d police custody…nd which fud we they been given d snake? 9ja were ar we going?
Let them sell the snake to add to their bail money…
It is not a surprising story because the bible had long foretold the presence. And activities of false prophets. MoRe and more people are being driven a quest for solution to their to patronage these ” ptophets” wiTh worse result or being duped.Matthew 7v15,
It is people who hate the truth that fall into fake pastors hands.
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I am here to advise the presiding Judge that snake eats rats and he can keep it in the court as an exhibit . He can ask mallam Sanusi of the central bank of Nigeria to keep it in the National tilt or sell it as a federal bond to alleviate the victims of Boko Haram. Mind you the China Town residents may steal it for pepper soup lovers. Money is the root of all evil and the Holy Bible has made it clear for who wants to hear. God almighty is lender of the last resort and Christ Jesus the only saviour.
gbam!!
okpala you know the way to life.a word from you, is a enough for the wise.christ is coming soonner.
Keep the snake in the same cell with the fraudsters.