A Federal High Court In Lagos on Tuesday ordered that three workers of the Lagos State House of Assembly be remanded in the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS) for alleged assault on some of its officers.
Justice Daniel Osiagor ordered the remand of the trio: Ibrahim Olanrewaju, Adetu Adekunle and Fatimoh Adetola to enable the court more time to go through the case file
The DSS will, therefore, hold them in custody pending their arraignment on Wednesday.
In the six counts against them dated February 24, 2025, and filed on Tuesday, the DSS accused the trio, along with others still at large, of conspiring to assault officers of the State Security Service while they were performing their official duties, without any reasonable excuse.
The agency alleged that on February 17, 2025, at the Lagos State House of Assembly, the three defendants obstructed the DSS officers while performing their official duty without any reasonable cause.
They were also accused of cyberstalking amongst themselves by recording and sending false information to social media circulating the same to the whole country to cause a breakdown of law and order amongst the people without any justification.
The DSS also said that Ibrahim Olanrewaju, Adetu Adekunle and Fatimoh Adetola, conspired amongst themselves to commit a felony by wilful misdirection of electronic messages to social media to embarrass the State Security Service and its officials.
The commission further accused Ibrahim Olanrewaju, and Adetu Adekunle of using iPhone 12 Promax to record false information and send the same to social media for circulation to cause an embarrassment to State Security Services, in order to cause breakdown of law and order to the public.
DSS said Adetu Adekunle, on or about February 17, 2025, at Lagos State House of Assembly used his Techno POP 8 to record false information and send the same to social media for circulation to cause embarrassment to the State Security Service to cause the breakdown of law and order to the public.
The offences allegedly committed contravened sections 516 of the Criminal Code Act, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004, as well as sections 27(1)(b), 24(1)(b), 24(c)(i), and 11 of the Cybercrimes (Prohibition, Prevention, etc.) Act, 2015 (as amended), 2024.
