{"id":152177,"date":"2025-02-21T22:21:15","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T21:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/cultism-police-charge-three-for-attempting-to-initiate-new-members-in-forest"},"modified":"2025-02-21T22:21:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T21:21:15","slug":"cultism-police-charge-three-for-attempting-to-initiate-new-members-in-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/cultism-police-charge-three-for-attempting-to-initiate-new-members-in-forest","title":{"rendered":"Cultism: Police charge three for attempting to initiate new members in forest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Nigeria Police on Friday charged three men before an Iyaganku Chief Magistrate\u2019s Court for allegedly belonging to an unlawful society called Eye Confraternity and possession of a locally made gun.<\/p>\n<p>The defendants, Okunade Habeeb, 25, Raji Wasiu, 30, and Junaid Afeez, 25, are facing a four-count charge of conspiracy, belonging to an unlawful society, breach of peace and unlawful possession of firearms.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecutor, Cpl. Akeem Akinloye said the defendants committed the offences on November 4, 2024, and Jan. 23, at about 11.00 p.m. at Eruwa and the Polytechnic area of Ibadan.<\/p>\n<p>He said the defendants conducted themselves in a manner likely to cause a breach of peace by trying to initiate new members into Eye Confraternity, an unlawful society.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecutor said the defendants gathered unlawfully in a forest at Eruwa to hold a meeting.<\/p>\n<p>He said that on November 4, 2024, the first defendant, Habeeb, was caught with a locally fabricated gun with six cartridges.<\/p>\n<p>Akinloye said Okunade could not give a satisfactory account of how he got the gun.<\/p>\n<p>He said the offences contravened Sections 64 (a) 249 (D) 430 and 516 of the Criminal Code, Laws of Oyo State, 2000.<\/p>\n<p>The defendants pleaded not guilty to the charge.<\/p>\n<p>Their counsel, Mr Idowu Adebayo, urged the court to grant bail to the defendants.<\/p>\n<p>The Chief Magistrate, Mrs Olabisi Ogunkanmi, admitted them to bail in N200,000 each with two sureties each in like sum.<\/p>\n<p>Ogunkanmi ordered that one of the sureties for each defendant must be a blood relation.<\/p>\n<p>She, thereafter, adjourned the matter until March 27 for hearing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Nigeria Police on Friday charged three men before an Iyaganku Chief Magistrate\u2019s Court for allegedly belonging to an unlawful society called Eye Confraternity and possession of a locally made gun. The defendants, Okunade Habeeb, 25, Raji Wasiu, 30, and Junaid Afeez, 25, are facing a four-count charge of conspiracy, belonging to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":152176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[2606,254,165],"class_list":["post-152177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-cultism","tag-nigeria","tag-police"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cultism: Police charge three for attempting to initiate new members in forest - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/cultism-police-charge-three-for-attempting-to-initiate-new-members-in-forest\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cultism: Police charge three for attempting to initiate new members in forest\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. 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