By Onozure Dania
An Ebute-Meta chief magistrate’s court in Lagos, yesterday, remanded in prison custody two street traders, who allegedly stoned a Kick Against Indiscipline, KAI, official to death.
Chief Magistrate A. T. Elias ordered that the accused be remanded in prison custody until hearing on their bail application on June 8.
The accused — Fidelis Orichi, 18, and Jeremiah Nnanna, 21— were charged with a two-count charge of conspiracy and murder.
Counsel to the accused, Funmi Okoya, urged the court to grant the accused bail, arguing that they were not present at the scene of the murder.
The pleas of the accused were, however, not taken by the courts for lack of jurisdiction to hear a murder case.
The prosecutor, Sergeant Kehinde Omisakin, had told the court that the accused committed the offences on May 23 at Iyana Oworo, Oworonshoki area of Lagos.
She said that the accused and others at large, conspired to murder a KAI official, Moshood Ayeni, 36, by pelting him with stones till he lost consciousness.
The alleged offences contravened Sections 223 and 411 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.
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