BREAKING: Arraigned LAHA Legislative Officers Pleads Not Guilty To  DSS’ Six Count Charge

By Akinwale Kasali 

The trio of Ibrahim Olanrewaju, Adetu Adekunle, and Fatimoh Adetola, ordered to remain in the custody of Department of State Security, DSS, custody pending their arraignment for allegedly preventing the law enforcement agency from performing their duties inside the Lagos House of Assembly have pleaded not guilty to the Six Count Charges leveled against them.

Following this development, they were admitted to bail, with Sureties who must be Senior Staff members of the House of Assembly.

It would be recalled that the leadership crisis rocking the Lagos State House of Assembly took a new twist last week, with a face off between the Lagos State House of Assembly Lawmakers and DSS Officers, who were, allegedly, stopping the DSS to enter the Assembly Chambers.

This led to their arrest and arraignment by the DSS.  of The three Legislative Officers were then remanded in Prison custody following an order by Justice Daniel Osiagor of the Federal High Court in Ikoyi. 

They were remanded on Tuesday barely three days after they were released by DSS following the intervention a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, Femi Falana.

To further detain the staff, they were rearrested and dragged before Justice Osiagor who granted the DSS’ request to hold the legislative staff pending their arraignment scheduled for Wednesday.

Before approving the DSS appeal, the Judge  requested time to review the case file brought before the Court.

According to the charge sheet marked FHC/L/273C/2025, dated February 24, 2025, the agency accused the three defendants of conspiring to obstruct and assault its officers while they performed their official duties, alongside charges of cyberstalking and spreading false information on social media.

Furthermore, Olanrewaju and Adekunle allegedly utilized an iPhone 12 Pro Max to capture and distribute misleading content on social media, aiming to humiliate the DSS and spark public unrest.

The agency also claimed that around February 17, 2025, at the Lagos State House of Assembly, Adekunle employed his Tecno POP 8 to record and post deceptive information online, intending to discredit the DSS and provoke disorder.

These purported actions violate Section 516 of the Criminal Code Act, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004, along with Sections 27(1)(b), 24(1)(b), 24(c)(i), and 11 of the Cybercrimes (Prohibition, Prevention, etc.) Act, 2015 (as amended in 2024).