A Magistrate Court sitting in Ikeja, on Thursday, August 11, 2022, ordered the remand of one Chinasa Michael at the Kirikiri prison for allegedly setting fire to a BRT bus terminal in the Oyingbo area of Lagos during the October 2020 #EndSARS protest.
According to media reports, the 21-year-old is being tried for conspiracy, arson and causing a breach of peace.
Magistrate M.C. Ayinde, who refused to take the defendant’s plea, ordered that he should be remanded in Kirikiri Correctional centre until September 1, pending legal advice.
Mr Ayinde ordered that the case file should be duplicated and sent to the office of the Lagos state Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) for legal advice.
Prosecution counsel, Inspector Segun Oke, told the court that the offences were committed in October 2020 at the Oyingbo BRT bus terminal, Lagos.
Mr Oke said that Mr Michael and others at large had set the BRT bus terminal on fire during the #EndSars protest.
The offences, he said, contravened the provisions of Sections 168, 343, and 411 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State, 2015.
