An Ota Magistrates’ Court in Ogun on Wednesday remanded a 24-year-old ex-convict, Semiu Abbas, in prison for allegedly cutting a man with a cutlass.
Chief Magistrate Mathew Akinyemi said that he would not grant the ex-convict bail because he feared he would commit the same offence if granted bail.
Akinyemi said that the ex-convict should remain in prison until July 4 when the court would consider his bail application.
Abass, of no fixed address, was arraigned on a charge of assault, for which he pleaded not guilty.
Earlier, the prosecutor, Sgt. Abdulkareem Mustapha told the court that the accused committed the offence on May 25 at 9 a.m. at Ilogbo area in Ota.
Mustapha said that the accused unlawfully assaulted one Ibrahim Arogundade by cutting him with a cutlass on his head and neck.
He said that the offence contravened Section 355 of the Criminal Code, Laws of Ogun, 2006.
