The Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, Ikeja, on Thursday charged 12 minors before an Ikeja Chief Magistrate’s court for alleged cultism.
The suspects, a 15-year-old and 11 other minors between age 16 to 17 are students of a Junior Secondary School in Mushin.
The prosecutor, Assistant Superintendent of Police, Simeon Imohnwa, told the court that the students committed the offence last Friday, September 15, at about 12:30pm.
According to the prosecutor, a member of the Lagos Neighbourhood Safety Corps, LSNC, Mushin, reported that he saw the suspects displaying knives and two cutlasses on their way to attack some students of Igbo-Owu Secondary School, Mushin.
Imohnwa said they confessed that they belonged to Gangsters Confraternity.
The offences contravened Sections 42, 51 and 411 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.
The defendants’ counsel, Mr. C. C. Igwe, urged the court to grant them bail in liberal terms, pointing out that they were all minors.
The Chief Magistrate Osunsanmi granted each defendant N200,000 bail with two sureties in like sum. She said one of the sureties must be a blood relation and be gainfully employed.
They were therefore remanded pending the fulfillment of their bail conditions.
The case was adjourned till October 25 for trial.
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