Lagos govt denies viral claim of 14-year-old boy’s illegal detention

The Lagos State Government has dismissed allegations circulating successful a viral societal media video claiming that a 14-year-old lad identified arsenic Michael Adekunle was unlawfully arrested and detained without proceedings astatine the Kirikiri custodial facility.

In a connection issued by the Office of the Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, the authorities described the claims arsenic “deliberate misinformation” intended to mislead the nationalist and make sympathy for the accused person.

The Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Lawal Pedro, clarified that the idiosyncratic astatine the centre of the contention is really Michael Adebiyi, who was 18 years aged astatine the clip of his apprehension successful 2022, according to authoritative records.

He explained that Adebiyi was arrested alongside Adedeji Kabiru and Adekunle Waris implicit allegations of equipped robbery.

According to the statement, the Directorate of Public Prosecutions received the duplicate lawsuit record connected January 6, 2023, for ineligible proposal and issued its proposal connected January 25, 2023.

The ineligible proposal established a prima facie lawsuit against Adebiyi and Kabiru for alleged conspiracy to perpetrate robbery and equipped robbery nether Sections 299 and 297(2)(a) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.

However, the authorities noted that Adekunle War...