Court Remands Notorious Cult Leader, Small Jpron In Prison For Alleged Murder

A Lagos State Chief Magistrate Court sitting Ebute-metta has remanded an alleged notorious cult leader in Shomolu area of the state, Ibrahim Oriyomi Balogun, popularly called Small Jpron in prison custody over alleged Murder.The Magistrate, Mrs. Oluwayemisi Adelaja ordered that Balogun be kept in prison after he was arraigned before the court by men of State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID) Lagos Command, on a five-count charge of conspiracy, murder, possession of firearms and belonging to Eiye Confrantanity, an outlawed secret society.Though the the plea of the 35 years old suspected cultist was not taken, the accused is to reman in prison until the legal advice from the Lagos State Direction of Public Prosecution (DPP) is obtained by the police.The matter has been adjourned till April 7, 2017.The accused person, who was earlier arrested and charged before the court sometime in August 2016, was said to have escaped from detention late last year.He was, however, rearrested by the police last month.In the charge marked D/22/17 and signed by the Head of Legal, SCIID, Effiong Asuquo, the pol alleged that the suspect in connivance with members of his group, who are now at large, sometime in January 2016, at Shomolu, conspired among themselves to commit murder.He was also accused by the police of killing one Whipper, by hitting him with a plank on his head. He was also said to have killed one Lekan, by shooting him with a gun on his chest.He was also alleged to belong to an unlawful society called Eiye Confrantanity and having in his possession and control a gun without license from appropriate authority, with an intent to use it to commit offence.The Offences according to the prosecutor, Inspector Chinalu Uwadione, are contrary and punishable under Sections 223, 42(1)(a) and 298(3) of the Criminal Laws Cap. Ch. C17, Vol. 3, Laws of Lagos State of Nigeria, 2015
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