A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered that the three workers of the Lagos State House of Assembly be remanded in custody of Department of State Services, DSS, for an alleged assault on its officers.
Trial judge, Justice Daniel Osiagor directed the remand of Ibrahim Olanrewaju, Adetu Adekunle and Fatimoh Adetola, after DSS counsel, Mr. Michael Bajela approached the court for arraignment of the defendants but the judge said that he wanted to go through the case file.
They are to be in DSS custody, pending their arraignment on Wednesday.
In the charge, dated February 24, 2025 and filed on Tuesday, the DSS accused the defendants, along with others still at large, of conspiring to assault its officers while they were performing their official duties, without any reasonable excuse.
DSS alleged that on February 17, 2025, at the Lagos State House of Assembly, the three defendants aided and abetted by obstructing the officers of the 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 same to the whole country for the purpose of causing a breakdown of law and order amongst the people without any justification.
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DSS said that Ibrahim Olanrewaju, Adetu Adekunle and Fatimoh Adetola, conspired amongst themselves to commit felony by willful misdirection of electronic massages to social media for the purpose of embarrassing the Service and its officials.
The DSS further accused Ibrahim Olanrewaju, and Adetu Adekunle of using Iphone 12 promax to record false information and sent same to social media for circulation with the intention to cause an embarrassment to the Services, in order 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 same to social media for circulation with the intention to cause an embarrassment to the 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.
