LAGOS Chief Magistrate’s Court yesterday remanded a leader of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Ganiyu Oyedepo (aka Kokozaria), in prison custody for assaulting popular actor, Alhaji Ade Adele (aka Baba Lawori).
Oyedepo was remanded following his arraignment on alleged offences of conspiracy, assault occasioning harm, and conduct likely to cause breach of public peace.
Chief Magistrate B. Sonuga remanded Oyedepo, after he pleaded not guilty to the charges brought against him by the operatives of the Force Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (FCID).
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The prosecutor, Morufu Animashaun, a Legal Officer in the Legal Department of FCIID, Alagbon, in a charge marked B/40/2024, told the court that the defendant committed the offences on June 5, 2024, at Idimu, by conspiring with some of his ‘boys’ to assault Adele.
He said in the course of the assault, Oyedepo’s boys, injured Adele in the head with a bottle.
He told the court that the offences committed by the defendant, contravened sections 411; 173 and 168 (1) (d) of the Criminal Law Ch. C17, Vol. 3, Laws of Lagos State and punishable under section 168 (2) of the same laws.
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