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From Lateef Dada, Osogbo
The Nigeria Police have slammed murder, kidnapping, cultism, and armed robbery charges on a member of the Osun State Transport Management System, Oyeyemi Olalekan, aka Emir.
He was appointed a member of the committee by Governor Ademola Adeleke in January 2023.
Emir was to be arraigned on February 1, but he was remanded at the Ile-Ife Correctional Centre due to the jurisdiction matter raised by his counsel, Edmund Biriomoni, before the Federal High Court, Osogbo.
When the case came up yesterday, the prosecution counsel, R. E. Usman, called the attention of the court to the amended charges and a motion to notify the court of the inclusion of cultism in the charge sheet.
But Biriomoni sought an adjournment and said that he had just served the motion in the court and needed time to respond to the prosecution application.
He noted that there were some fundamental defects in the prosecution application that needed to be addressed and could not be raised orally.
Justice Ayoola Emmanuel, thereby, adjourned the case to March 13 for arraignment, while the defendant was returned to the correctional centre.
