An Ebute Meta Magistrate’s Court has remanded four men in custody for allegedly killing 21-year-old Adekunle Ramoni.
The incident happened in the Odonguyan area of Ikorodu, Lagos State.
The suspects, Emmamuel Reuben, Ikechukwu
Atuma, Tobiloba Ogunyemi and Joseph Isaac, were arraigned on Thursday
at the Ebute Metta Magistrate court on two counts of murder.
The charge reads in part,
“That you,
Emmamuel Reuben, Ikechukwu Atuma, Tobiloba Ogunyemi, Joseph Isaac, and
others now at large, on July 20, 2014 at about 2100hrs, at the Odonguyan
area of Ikorodu, Lagos, in the Lagos Magisterial District, did
unlawfully kill one Adekunle Ramoni and thereby committed an offence
punishable under Section 221 of the Criminal Law of Lagos state Nigeria,
2011.”
The defendants’ pleas were not taken.
The prosecutor, Asup Feddy, applied for
the suspects to be remanded in prison pending legal advice from the
Directorate of Public Prosecutions.
The Magistrate, Mr. E.O. Ogunkanmi, granted the application.
In a related development, three other
suspects Oliver Oke, Kelechi Nwanfor and Adekanye Jamiu, were arraigned
for allegedly being part of the hoodlums involved in the affray which
led to the death of the 21-year-old victim.
They were granted bail in the sum of N10,000 with two sureties in like sum.
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