On Thursday, 11th August, an Ikeja Magistrate court ordered the remand of a 21-year-old man, Michael Chinasa, an indigene of Anambra, State, accused of setting fire to a BRT bus terminal at Oyingbo in Lagos during the heat of the End SARS protest in October 2020.
The defendant, 21, who is unemployed and resides at No. 21, Ilogbo St., Apapa Road, Lagos, is being tried for conspiracy, arson, and causing a breach of peace.
The Magistrate in charge, Mrs. M.C Ayinde, who refused to take the defendant’s plea, ordered that he be remanded in KiriKiri Correctional center until September 1, pending legal advice.
She also ordered that the case file be duplicated and sent to the Lagos State Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) office for legal advice.
The Prosecution counsel, Inspector Segun Oke, told the court that the offences were committed in October 2020 at the Oyingbo BRT bus terminal, Lagos.
Inspector Oke said that Michael and others at large set the BRT bus terminal on fire during the #EndSARS protest.
The offences he stated contravened Sections 168, 343, and 411 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State, 2015.
