JUSTICE Daniel Osiagor of a Federal High Court, Lagos has ordered that the three workers of the Lagos State House of Assembly, be remanded in the custody of the Department of State Security Services (DSS) for an alleged assault on its officers.
The judge ordered the remand of Ibrahim Olanrewaju, Adetu Adekunle, and Fatimoh Adetola after being in DSS custody after the prosecution counsel, (DSS counsel), Mr Michael Bajela approached the court for arraignment.
However, the arraignment could not hold as Justice Osiagor said that he wanted to go through the file.
Consequently, the DSS will hold them in custody pending their arraignment on February 26,2025
In the charge delineated FHC/L/273C/2025, dated February 24, 2025, and filed on February 25, the DSS alleged the trio, along with others still at large, conspired to assault officers of the State Security Service while they were performing their official duties, without any reasonable excuse.
The prosecution alleged that on February 17, 2025, at the Lagos State House of Assembly, the defendants aided and abetted by obstructing the officers of the State Security Service while performing their official duty without any reasonable cause.
They were also accused of cyberstalking amongst themselves by recording and sending false information to social medial circulating the same to the whole country to cause a breakdown of law and order amongst the people without any justification.
DSS said that Ibrahim Olanrewaju, Adetu Adekunle, and Fatimoh Adetola, conspired amongst themselves to commit a felony by willful misdirection of electronic messages to social media to embarrass the State Security Service and its officials.
The commission further accused Ibrahim Olanrewaju, and Adetu Adekunle of using iPhone 12 Promax to record false information and sent the same to social media for circulation to cause an embarrassment to State Security Services, to cause breakdown of law and order to the public.
DSS said Adetu Adekunle, on or about February 17, 2025, at Lagos State House of Assembly used his Techno POP 8 to record false information and sent the same to social media for circulation intending to cause embarrassment to State Security Service to cause the breakdown of law and order to the public.
The prosecution said their offences contravene the provision of sections 516 of the Criminal Code Act, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004, as well as sections 27(1)(b), 24(1)(b), 24(c)(i), and 11 of the Cybercrimes (Prohibition, Prevention, etc.) Act, 2015 (as amended), 2024.
