Kemisola Oye
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered that three workers of the Lagos State House of Assembly be remanded in custody of the Department of State Security Services for an alleged assault on its officers.
Justice Daniel Osiagor ordered the remand of the trio namely Ibrahim Olanrewaju, Adetu Adekunle and Fatimoh Adetola after the counsel to the agency, Mr Michael Bajela approached the court for arraignment but the judge said that he wanted to go through the file.
DSS will hold them in custody pending their arraignment tomorrow.
In the charge, marked FHC/L/273C/2025, dated 24 February 2025 and filed on Tuesday, the DSS accused the trio, along with others still at large, of conspiring to assault officers of the State Security Service without any reasonable excuse while they were performing their official duties,
The agency alleged that on 17 February 2025, at the Lagos State House of Assembly, the three 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 media and circulating same to the whole country for the purpose of causing 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 for the purpose of embarrassing 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 send same to social media for circulation with the intention to cause an embarrassment to State Security Services in order to cause the breakdown of law and order to the public.
DSS said Adetu Adekunle, on or about 17 February 2025, at the Lagos State House of Assembly complex used his Techno POP 8 to record false information and sent same to social media for circulation with the intention to cause an embarrassment to the State Security Service in order to cause the breakdown of law and order to the public.
The offences allegedly committed contravened 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.
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