12 Minors Charged With Cultism In Lagos

A 15-year-old student and 11 other minors, students of a Junior Secondary School in Mushin, were, yesterday, charged before an Ikeja Chief Magistrate’s court by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, Ikeja, for alleged cultism. The other 11 students are between 16 and 17 years old.

The suspects, who were arraigned before Magistrate B. O. Osunsanmi are facing a three-count charge of conspiracy, membership of gangsters confraternity, and an unlawful society.

The prosecutor, Assistant Superintendent of Police Simeon Imohnwa told the court that the students committed the offence last Friday, September 15, at about 12:30p.m.