The Lagos State Police
Command has arraigned an alleged cultist, Adeola Adebowale, 34,before the
Ebute-Meta Magistrates’ Court, Lagos State, for allegedly killing a former cult
leader by binding his hands and legs and throwing him into the lagoon.
According to Punch, the deceased Godwin
Victor, aka Sangba, was abducted by some cultists in the Akoka area of
the state.
Sangba was reportedly
kidnapped by members of the gang he once led because of his decision to quit
the group and embrace normal life.
A police source told
Punch that the victim was kidnapped by some members of the gang – Anarchy,
Rotimi, Lati, Ade and others – who were loyal to late Segun Ogere, aka Shaggy.
Shaggy was killed by
suspected cultists while returning from a court, where he was the principal
witness, sometime in 2014.
Adebowale was alleged
to have been among the people that killed Victor, whose corpse was found on
June 11.
The accused was
arraigned on two counts of murder.
The charges read in part,
“That you, Adeola Adebowale, and others now at large, on June 6, 2015, at about
0100 hours in the Akoka area of Lagos State, in the Lagos Magisterial District,
did conspire among yourselves to commit felony to wit: murder, and thereby
committed an offence punishable under Section 231 of the Criminal Law of Lagos
State of Nigeria, 2011.”
Inspector C. Adams, who
represented the police prosecutor, Sergeant Mariam Dauda, asked that the
defendant be remanded in custody for 30 days pending “the time the case file
shall be duplicated and forwarded to the Directorate of Public Prosecutions”.
But the defence
counsel, Spurgeon Ataene, disagreed, saying, “The inability to arrest any other
person made the police to bring the defendant to court. It is very clear on the
remand request before the court that all the questions asked are not in tandem
with the procedure for remand. They are just make-believes. We implore the
court to disregard the application for remand.”
The magistrate, N. A.
Layeni, said the defendant should be remanded in custody pending the DPP’s
advice
The case was adjourned
till September 4, 2015.
-Punch
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