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Court refuses 23 ritualists bail
By Adesoji Adeniyi 13 hours 22 minutes ago
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An Osogbo Magistrate’s Court yesterday refused to grant bail to 23 suspected ritualists arrested by the police last week.

The suspects, who are members of a New Millennium Church located at Alekuwodo in Osun State, were arraigned before the court for allegedly causing a breach of public peace.

Last week, the mob razed the church building, a Cyber Cafe and shoemaker’s shop belonging to members.

According to the charge sheet, the accused persons on January 11, 2012, at Oremeji Street, Alekuwodo, committed misdemeanour and abused the Christian faith in public by urinating on a N20 note. The act was described as fetish.

Police Prosecutor Sergeant Elisha Olusegun told the court that the accused persons, who included a septuagenarian, referred to the late Joseph Adebayo Oladele, the church founder, as Jesus Christ. He said they conducted themselves in a manner likely to cause the breach of peace by using drums to hawk pap.

He said the offences were contrary to and punishable under sections 516, 204, and 249 (1) of the Criminal Code Cap. 34, Vol. II, Laws of Osun State of Nigeria, 2003.

The accused persons, however, pleaded not guilty. Defence counsel, Mr. Bola Ige, moved for an oral bail , which the Magistrate, Olusola Aluko, ordered him to file formally.

Ige appealed to the court to remand one of the accused, Jumoke Oladele, who is nursing a one-year old child, in the state Criminal Investigative Department’s (CID’s) office instead of the prison custody.

But the prosecutor, who opposed the application, said the CID’s office and the two police cells were congested.

The Magistrate ordered that the accused be remanded at Ilesa prison and adjourned the case till Febuary 29.

It was alleged that human skulls and other vital parts of human body before the hoodlums burnt the church.

A resident, who preferred not to be named, said the worshippers always sing at night.

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