A 44-year-old man, Wasiu Akinwande, better known as Olori Esho, was remanded in the Kirikiri Correctional Centre on Tuesday by an Ikeja Magistrate Court in Ogba, Lagos State, on numerous murder charges.
Magistrate Mobolaji Tanimola ordered Akinwande’s remand for the first 30 days, pending legal advice from the Directorate of Public Prosecutions.
Akinwande was charged with 11 counts of conspiracy, murder, attempted murder, illegal firearm possession, membership in an unlawful society, possession of a poisoned blade, grievous bodily injury, threat to life, and possession of other weaponry.
The charges were preferred against the suspect by the Nigeria Police Force.
According to the police prosecution counsel, Nosa Uhumwangho, the defendant, and others who remain at large reportedly committed the crimes on various dates between December 9, 2010, and April 5, 2025, in various sites throughout Lagos State, including Mushin, Idi-Araba, Surulere, and Fadeyi.
Uhumwangho told the court that the defendant, who was allegedly in possession of an AK-47 weapon, shot and killed Yusuf Bolakale (30) and Yusuf Ramadan (23) at No. 11 Mosalashi Street in Mushin, Lagos.
He was believed to have fled to the Alagbado region, where he was later caught.
The prosecutor further claimed that on December 9, 2010, on Tiamiyu Street in Fadeyi, the defendant shot and killed Aminat Lateef, a 10-year-old girl, while she was doing an errand.
Similarly, on July 31, 2024, the defendant reportedly killed six more people, named as Anyila (surname unknown), Ojajo (surname unknown), and four others, after a violent battle between competing sections of an illegal society in Idi-Araba.
