Police arraign eight men for alleged cultism, attack on police station

By Ngozi Njoku

Eight men on Thursday appeared before the Ikeja Magistrates’ Court over alleged cultism and an attack on a police station.

The defendants, Idris Dauda, 20; Quadri Fadipe, 22; Nurudeen Adeniyi, 23; Selim Tunde, 19; Afolabi Kundus, 19; Ojo Michael, 37; Ahmed Azeez, 20; and Nurudeen Dare, 39, are facing a three-count charge bordering on conspiracy, membership of unlawful society and conduct likely to cause breach of peace.

The prosecutor, SP Josephine Ikhayere alleged that the defendants and others now at large, on Feb. 1, at about 3.00 a.m. at Ijaniki area of Lagos, conspired to commit felony to wit: unlawful society and conduct likely to cause breach of peace.

Ikhayere further alleged that the defendants belonged to the proscribed Eiye Confraternity.

She told the court that the defendants also allegedly conducted themselves in a manner likely to cause breach of peace by attacking Ijaniki Police Station with stones, sticks, iron and other dangerous weapons.

The offences, the prosecution said, contravened Sections 411 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015, and 2(3)(a)(b)(c)(d), of the Unlawful Societies Prohibition and Cultism Law of Lagos State, 2021.

The court declined to take the defendants’ pleas.

The Magistrate, Mr Lateef A. Owolabi, ordered that they be remanded in a correctional facility and adjourned the case until March 24, for further proceedings.