Court remands 3 OPC members over arson, murder
An Iyaganku Chief Magistrates’ Court sitting in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, on Wednesday ordered that three members of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) be remanded in a correctional centre for alleged arson. The police charged Awodele Adedigba, 45 Dauda Kazeem , 38, and Hassan Ramon, 33, with three counts of conspiracy, murder and arson. […]
An Iyaganku Chief Magistrates’ Court sitting in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, on Wednesday ordered that three members of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) be remanded in a correctional centre for alleged arson.
The police charged Awodele Adedigba, 45 Dauda Kazeem , 38, and Hassan Ramon, 33, with three counts of conspiracy, murder and arson.
Chief Magistrate Olaide Hamzat, who did not take the plea of the suspects for want jurisdiction, ordered that they be remanded in Abolongo Correctional Centre, Oyo town.
Hamzat ordered the police to return the case file to the office of the Oyo State Directorate of Public Prosecution (DPP). He adjourned the case till April 21.
Earlier, the prosecution counsel, Inspector Opeyemi Olagunju, told the court that the suspects, on March 7, at about 8am at Kajola village, Ayete, allegedly caused the death of a 45-year-old woman.
He said that Awodele, Dauda and Hassan allegedly set fire to the house of Abdullahi Wakili, causing a damage of N5million.
He said the offence contravened the provisions of sections 316, 324, 443 and 516 of the Criminal Code of Oyo State, 2000 (NAN).