A Yaba Chief Magistrate Court in Lagos has ordered the remand of Azeez Lawal aka Kunle Poly and two others for 30 days over January 20 crisis in Idumota.
Chief Magistrate Linda Balogun ordered the remand of the three leaders of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) in a facility of the Nigeria Police zonal monitoring unit, zone 2 headquarters, Onikan-Lagos.
Others ordered to be remanded alongside Kunle Poly are Prince Idowu Johnson and Agboola Kosoko.
The application for their remand was moved by police counsel, Morufu Animashaun, who told the court that the application is pursuant to section 264(1), (2), (3), (4) and (6) of the Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos State, 2021 (as amended); Section 4 and 10 of the Police Act, 2020, and sections 6(c), 35(1)(C)(5) and (7)(a) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 199 (as amended).
Animashaun said that the application is to enable the police to conclude the investigation of a case of threat to life and property, violence, cultism, mayhem, conduct likely to cause a breach of peace, unlawful possession of firearms, conspiracy and murder, a case made against the three men.
He supported the remand application with an affidavit of 14 paragraphs, deposed to by one of the investigating officers, Inspector Monday Ohion.
Chief Magistrate Balogun said he was remanding them to enable the police to conclude their investigation.
