An Iyaganku Chief Magistrates’ court sitting in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, Wednesday, ordered that three members of the Oodua People’s Congress (OPC) be remanded in a correctional centre for alleged arson, murder and conspiracy.

Awodele Adedigba, 45; Dauda Kazeem, 38; and Hassan Ramon, 33, were charged with three counts of conspiracy, murder and arson.

The Chief Magistrate, Olaide Hamzat, did not take the plea of the suspects for lack of jurisdiction, but ordered that they be remanded in Abolongo Correctional facility in Oyo town.

Hamzat ordered the police to return the case file to the office of the Oyo State Directorate of Public Prosecution and adjourned the matter to April 21 for mention.

Earlier, the prosecution counsel, Inspector Opeyemi Olagunju, told the court that the suspects on March 7 at about 8am at Kajola village, Ayete, allegedly caused the death of a 45-year-old woman by allegedly setting fire to the house of the Ibarapa Fulani warlord, Abdullahi Wakili, thereby causing damage of N5 million.

The offence, he said, contravened the provisions of sections 316, 324, 443 and 516 of the Criminal Code of Oyo State 2000.