By Akinwale Kasali
Seun Kuti, Son of late Afrobeat Legend, Fela Anikulapo, has been remanded by the Magistrate Court in Yaba, Lagos, for an additional four days after the expiration of the two days given by the Court for the Police to conclude investigation into the assault on a police officer on the Third Mainland Bridge, Lagos.
Chief Magistrate Adeola Olatubosun’s order was sequel to a motion ex-parte brought by the Police seeking for an order of the Court to remand the defendant in Police custody for four days at the State Criminal Investigation Department, (SCID), Yaba Lagos, to enable the Police carry out further investigation.
The team of prosecution Counsel led by DCP Simon Lough (SAN), Yetunde Cardoso, P.A. Egbunike, Umar Bello, Cyril Ajifor, Mr. Moruf Animashaun, Ayodele Oladiran, S.A Adebesin, Emmanuel Eze, V.I Ekperezie and Idowu Osungbure told the Court that they filed a motion ex-parte supported by a -12 paragraph affidavit with one exhibit attached to it.
Lough who told the Court that the motion was supported by a written address, added that the 12- paragraph affidavit was deposed to by one ACP Saheed Kassim, one of the Investigating Police Officers (IPO) attached to the State Criminal Investigation Department, Yaba Lagos.
The application, he said, is brought pursuant to Sections 264(1) (2),(3),(4) & (6) & 257 of Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos State, 2021 (As Amended), Sections 4 & 10 of the Police Act, 2020 and Sections 6(6), 35(1)(C), (5) & (7)(9) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (As Amended).
The Learned Silk said: “It is our humble submission that from the facts, nature and circumstance of this case, the applicant is entitled to the relief sought from this Honourable Court in the interest of justice, public order and morality.”
Responding to prosecution team’s submission, Femi Akinyemi, Counsel, who held brief of Adeyinka Olumide-Fusika the defendant’s Counsel, prayed the Court to stand down the matter.
But Chief Magistrate Olatubosun refused the prayer of the defendant’s Counsel to stand down. She, therefore, granted prosecution’s prayer for the extension of the remand order.
She ordered that the defendant be remanded further in police custody for additional four days as requested by prosecution.
She instructed that the file be duplicated for the DPP and subsequently adjourned the matter to May 23, 2023.
