By Alao Abiodun

Police in Lagos have charged 48 Oodua Republic agitators with unlawful assembly.

Commissioner of Police Hakeem Odumosu arraigned the suspects before a Magistrate Court sitting in Yaba.

The agitators were also charged with belonging to an unlawful society and conducting themselves in a manner likely to cause a breach of the peace.

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But last week, the Yoruba self-determination groups’ umbrella body Ilana Omo Oodua (IOO) had rose in defence of those arrested, securing their bail from the Lagos State Magistrate Court sitting in Yaba.

In another development, the court documents obtained by The Nation, revealed that the suspects were charged for unlawful assembly, unlawful society and conducts likely to cause breach of public peace.

The suspects have been granted bail but Tajudeen Bakare’s bail was revoked.