{"id":131987,"date":"2019-07-02T09:27:23","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T08:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=131987"},"modified":"2019-07-02T09:27:50","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T08:27:50","slug":"osun-court-remands-suspected-cultist-for-allegedly-stabbing-neighbour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=131987","title":{"rendered":"Osun court remands suspected cultist for allegedly stabbing neighbour"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A 32-year-old man, Ahmed Kolajo, was on Monday remanded in prison by an Ile-Ife Magistrates\u2019 Court in Osun for allegedly stabbing a man on the head.<\/p>\n

The court\u2019s Magistrate, Olukunle Owolawi, charged Ahmed with three-count of assault, breach of peace and secret cult membership.<\/p>\n

Owolawi, however, refused him bail and ordered for his remand in prison and adjourned the case until July 15.<\/p>\n

Earlier, the Prosecutor, Cpl. Olawale Odusina, told the court that the defendant committed the offences on June 28, around 04:15 p.m. at Oja-tuntun, Ile-Ife.<\/p>\n

Odusina said that the defendant assaulted one Obihewu Agwu by stabbing him severally on his head and causing him near fatal injuries.<\/p>\n

He added that the defendant also assaulted PC Omisakin Mayowa, attached to \u2018A\u2019 Division, Moore Police Station, Ile-Ife, while performing his lawful duty.<\/p>\n

He said the offences contravened sections 62 (A), 355 and 356 of the Criminal Code, Laws of Osun, 2002.<\/p>\n

The defendant who was alleged to be a member of a cult group called Eye Confratanity, however, pleaded not guilty.<\/p>\n

Earlier, the Defence Counsel, Mr Leke Dada, had pleaded for his client\u2019s bail in the most liberal terms, promising that he would provide responsible sureties, NAN reports.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A 32-year-old man, Ahmed Kolajo, was on Monday remanded in prison by an Ile-Ife Magistrates\u2019 Court in Osun for allegedly stabbing a man on the head. The court\u2019s Magistrate, Olukunle Owolawi, charged Ahmed with three-count of assault, breach of peace and secret cult membership. Owolawi, however, refused him bail and ordered for his remand in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":113491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2830,3],"tags":[5871,1164],"class_list":["post-131987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law","category-news","tag-cultist","tag-osun"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/113491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}