A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, yesterday, ordered that the three workers of the Lagos State House of Assembly be remanded in the custody of the Department of State Services, DSS, for an alleged assault on its officers.
Recall that the DSS, last Friday, arrested three Assembly staff for interrogation over the incident that happened penultimate Monday, when DSS stormed the House claimed to be based on invitation.
The trial judge, Justice Daniel Osiagor, directed the remand of Ibrahim Olanrewaju, Adetu Adekunle and Fatimoh Adetola after DSS counsel, Mr Michael Bajela, approached the court for arraignment of the defendants.
The judge, however, said he wanted to go through the case file. They are to be in DSS custody, pending their arraignment tomorrow.
In the charge, dated February 24, 2025, and filed yesterday, DSS accused the defendants, with others still at large, of conspiring to assault its officers while they were performing their official duties, without any reasonable excuse.
DSS alleged that on February 17, 2025, at the Lagos State House of Assembly, the three defendants aided and abetted by obstructing the officers of the service while performing their official duty without any reasonable cause.
They were also accused of cyberstalking among themselves by recording and sending false information to social media circulating the same to the whole country to cause a breakdown of law and order among the people without any justification.
DSS said Ibrahim Olanrewaju, Adetu Adekunle and Fatimoh Adetola, conspired among themselves to commit a felony by willful misdirection of electronic messages to social media to embarrass the service and its officials.
The DSS further accused Olanrewaju and Adekunle of using an iPhone 12 Promax to record false information and sending the same to social media for circulation to cause embarrassment to the service, to cause the breakdown of law and order to the public.
DSS said Adetu Adekunle, on or about February 17, 2025, at Lagos State House of Assembly used his Techno POP 8 to record false information and sent the same to social media for circulation to cause embarrassment to the service to cause the breakdown of law and order to the public.
The offences allegedly committed contravened section 516 of the Criminal Code Act, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004, as well as sections 27(1)(b), 24(1)(b), 24(c)(i), and 11 of the Cybercrimes (Prohibition, Prevention, etc.) Act, 2015 (as amended), 2024.
