An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday remanded a 24-year-old unemployed, Tajudeen Aliu for illegal possession of firearms and belonging to a secret cult.
The police charged Aliu, whose residential address was not given, with conspiracy, unlawful assembly and possession of firearms.
The Magistrate, Mrs O.A. Teluwo, who did not take the plea of Aliu, ordered that he be kept in Kirikiri Correctional Centre, Lagos.
She ordered that the case file should be returned to the Lagos State Director of Public Prosecutions for legal advice.
Teluwo adjourned the case until July 15 for mention.
Earlier, the prosecution counsel, Insp Funmi Akinleye told the court that Aliu committed the offence with others, at large between April 22 and May 11 2021 at 10.00 a.m. in Langbasa, Lagos.
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Akinleye alleged that Aliu was arrested with one locally made cut to size single barrel which he could not give a satisfactory account of.
The prosecution said that Aliu belonged to ‘Eiye Confraternity’ which is proscribed by law as an unlawful society.
The offence, the prosecution said, contravened Sections 2 (3)(a)(b)(c)(d) of Unlawful Societies and Cultism Laws of Lagos State, 2021 and sections 12 and 411 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State, 2015.
