Igbo Leader Who Threatened To Invite IPOB, Shutdown Lagos, Remanded In Prison

The Eze Igbo of Ajao Estate, in Lagos state Fredrick Nwajagu, has been remanded at the Ikoyi Correctional Centre on the order of a Magistrate Court in Yaba on Wednesday.

ALL FACTS NEWSPAPER had reported that Nwajagu in a video which went viral last Friday, threatened to invite members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to Lagos to protect the Igbos who are being affected by the seeming ethnic crisis in the state. READ HERE/WATCH VIDEO

He was arrested in a hotel on Saturday, April 1, in a joint operation carried out by police officers and operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS).

The 67-year-old was arraigned on Wednesday, April 5, before the presiding Magistrate P. E. Nwaka on two count charges, bordering on misconduct and intention to cause a breach of peace in Lagos State.

The four-man police prosecution team, led by the OC Legal, Yetunde Cardoso, told the court that Nwajagu committed the offence on March 26, 2023, at No. 2 Akeem Shittu Street, Ajao Estate, Lagos, which contravened Sections 168 (d), 411 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.

“The defendant conducted himself in a manner likely to cause a breach of the peace by making inciting statements, saying that he would bring IPOB terrorist group to shut down Lagos for one month, three weeks, or three days,” the prosecution said.

They prayed the court to remand the defendant in the correctional centre for 30 days pending legal advice from the Lagos State Directorate of Public Prosecutions.

However, counsel to the defendant, while moving their client’s bail application, urged the court to admit the defendant to bail in the most liberal terms.

The magistrate, who rejected the counsel’s plea, ordered the immediate remand of the defendant to the Ikoyi Correctional Centre pending legal advice from the DPP.

Nwaka adjourned the case till May 3, 2023, for DPP advice.