LAGOS – A 26-year-old student of the Yaba College of Technology, Usman Oloyede, was on Wednesday charged before a Yaba Magistrates’ Court in Lagos over the membership of an unlawful fraternity and threat to life.
The accused whose residential address was not disclosed, is being tried on a five-count charge of conspiracy, unlawful fraternity, threat to life, impersonation and a breach of public peace.
The prosecutor, Insp. Chris Takim, told the court that the accused and others still at large, between 2008 and Sept. 23, 2014 at the Yaba College of Technology, conspired to organise a secret society known and called “EIYE”.
Takim alleged that the accused and his accomplices on Sept. 23, sent a text message through cell phone no 08036004858 to the Rector of the college, one Dr.Margaret Ladipo, threatening to kill her.
He submitted that the accused on Sept. 20, falsely presented himself as a graduate of the college and an assistant supervisor of one of the college’s final-year students’ project at the State Criminal Investigation Department, Panti, Yaba.
Takim told the court that the accused and his accomplices, with the intent to cause disturbance, conducted themselves in a manner likely to cause a breach of public peace at the college.
The prosecutor said the offences contravened Sections 40, 42, 230, 378 and 409 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.
Oloyede, however, pleaded not guilty to the charge.
The Magistrate, Mrs M.A Oshibanjo, granted the accused bail in the sum of N20,000 with one surety in like sum.
Oshinbanjo, then, adjourned the case to Nov. 28, for substantive trial (NAN)