The arraignment of suspected billionaire kidnapper, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, otherwise known as Evans, on two separate charges before Justice Adedayo Akintoye of a Lagos High Court sitting at Igbosere, was yesterday stalled, as the prosecutor is yet to complete service on the defendant’s counsel.
Evans was charged alongside Joseph Ikenna Emeka, Victor Aduba and Okapara Linus.
The defendants are being charged with conspiracy to kidnapping, kidnapping and attempted murder, preferred against them by Lagos State.
The third defendant’s counsel Emmanuel Ochai was absent, while the fourth defendant Okpara Linus had no legal representation.
Ogungbeje and the second defendant’s counsel O. Ogu, informed the court that he had not been served with the information.
The Lagos State prosecutor Ms Titilayo Shitta-Bey, Director of Public Prosecution DPP, told the court that she had filed a fresh and amended information, and had served the ýinformation to the first defendant’s counsel Olukoya Ogungbeje, but that she was yet to serve the other defendants’ counsels.
Shitta-Bey said, “The amended charge ýis the fourth defendant that was added in this fresh charge is Okpara Linus, we only want to bring the information before the court so that he can be remanded in prison in view of the fact that we have not served the other counsel.”
On the second charge Evans, was charged alongside Joseph Ikenna Emeka, Ugochukwu Nwachukwu and Victor Aduba.
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