Sixty-two-year-old chairman of Meiran branch of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) Wasiu Onibudo, has been accused of stabbing another member of the union to death.
The deceased was stabbed several times by Onibudo and others after a disagreement until he died, it was alleged.
Onibudo was arrested by the police and arraigned at an Ebute-Metta Chief Magistrates’ Court last Friday for alleged conspiracy and murder.
Prosecuting Police Inspectors Godwin Osuyi and Daniel Ighodalo told the court that the other suspects were at large. They urged Chief Magistrate Afolashade Botoku to remand the defendant in prison custody.
Osuyi filed an application pursuant to Section 264 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos State (ACJL), 2011 and supported it with a 10-paragraph affidavit deposed to by Inspector Bartholomew Ali of the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Monitoring Unit, Abuja.
Attached to the affidavit were a charge sheet; a petition written to the police by Plenary Solicitors; the deceased’s photograph; medical certificate of cause of death and a statement of a witness, Ahmed Balogun.
The prosecutor urged the court to remand the defendant pending the advice of the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP).
But the defendant’s counsel, Spourgeon Ataene, urged the court to discountenance the remand application by considering Section 264 (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(9) and (10) of the ACJL and grant his client bail pending the DPP’s advice.
Chief Magistrate Botoku ordered that the defendant be remanded in prison custody for 30 days, pending the DPP’s advice.
She also ordered the police to duplicate the case file and forward it to the DPP.
The matter was adjourned till February 29.
THE NATION NIGERIA
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