An Ikeja Magistrate Court on Friday remanded a 20-year-old man, Solomon Johnson, at the Kirikiri custodial facility for alleged illegal possession of a firearm.
The Magistrate, Mrs M. C. Ayinde, who did not take Johnson’s plea, ordered that the case file be duplicated and sent to the state director of public prosecutions for advice.
Ayinde adjourned the case until May 23 for mention.
The defendant, who resides at 17 Okosun St., Ajangbadi, Ojo, Lagos State, is facing a two-count charge of conspiracy and unlawful possession of a firearm.
Earlier, the prosecutor, Insp Segun Oke, told the court that the defendant committed the offences on April 13 at Ajegunle, Lagos State.
Oke said that a team of policemen on patrol arrested the defendant with a locally-made double-barrel gun and two live cartridges.
He said that the defendant could not give any satisfactory explanation as to how he got them.
Oke said the offences contravened Sections 4 and 411 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.
Talk to a Lawyer facts:
- Section 4 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015 provides that the general principles of criminal law apply to every offence under the law, unless otherwise expressly stated.
- Section 411 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015 defines conspiracy as an agreement between two or more persons to do or cause to be done an illegal act or a legal act by illegal means.
- The punishment for conspiracy is the same as the punishment for the offence that is the object of the conspiracy.
- Click here to read the criminal law of Lagos State.
