An Osun State Magistrate Court sitting in Osogbo has ordered the police to detain three alleged mastermind of #EndSARS looting for 14 days.
This is consequent upon a motion exparte filed by the Commissioner of Police against the alleged masterminds identified as Aishat Mutiu (21), Segun Oyewale and Idris Yinusa seeking more time to keep the three in police custody pending investigation and the arrest of others now at large.
The motion exparte deposed to by Inspector Adebayo Sunday attached to the Crime Scene Section, Osun Police command sought for ten reliefs which were brought under section 4 of the Police Act and Regulations Cap. P19 LFN, 2004 and section 35 (1) of the Constitution Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999, Section 292 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Laws of Osun State, 2018.
The police described the three suspects as key to its investigation of the looting that took place in Osogbo the state capital after the protest.
The Chief Magistrate, Mrs Modupe Awodele granted all the reliefs sought noting that the accused persons should be with the police for 14 days after which they must be arraigned before the court.
Meanwhile, before today’s arraignment of the 3 suspects, 69 others who allegedly participated in the looting across the 14 local governments of the state had been arraigned at various magistrate courts in the state.
The accused were brought before the courts for various offences ranging from destructive invasion, vandalism, looting and arson, the accused have been detained at the Ilesa correctional centers on the orders of the courts.
However, a statement by the Special Adviser to the Governor on Security, Mrs Abiodun Ige affirms that those who yielded the Governor’s offer of amnesty were pardoned as promised by the Governor.
Akionla Adenitan
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