An Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court on Friday remanded seven teenage boys in Bostal Correctional Centre for alleged possession of arms. The Chief Magistrate, Mr Tajudeen Elias, ordered that they should be remanded in the centre located at Adigbe in Abeokuta Area of Ogun.
Elias adjourned the case till April 27 for continuation of hearing.
Two of the accused are 17 years, one is 16, three are 15 while the last is 13 years and they live in Agege, a suburb of Lagos.
The boys were being tried for conspiracy and unlawful display of arms in public.
The Prosecutor, Insp. Benedict Aigbokhan, told the court that the offences were committed on March 25 at Amoo Area of Oko Oba, Agege, Lagos.
Aigbokhan said that the boys went with arms to a carnival they were not invited to.
“It was at the point of entering that the security men discovered the boys were with cutlasses and knives,’’ he said.
He said the offences contravened Sections 51 and 409 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State, 2011.
They pleaded not guilty to the charge.
(NAN)
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