SAN clears air on Rivers political court case
Justice Bolaji Olajuwon of the Federal High Court in Abuja, yesterday, ordered that the five Port Harcourt-based men arraigned by the Federal Government on terrorism charges be remanded at Kuje Prison, Abuja.
They are to remain in prison custody till February 2 when their respective bail applications would be determined by the judge. The five defendants are Chime Ezebalike, Prince Lukman Oladele, Kenneth Kpasa, Osiga Donald and Ochueja Thankgod.
In the seven-count charges, the defendants were accused of committing alleged terrorism offences by invading, vandalising and burning down Rivers State House of Assembly during the wake of the political crisis that rocked Port Harcourt in October last year. They were also accused of killing a Superintendent of Police (SP), Bako Agbashim, and five police informants at Ahoada Community of the state.
MEANWHILE, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Dr. Olukayode Ajulo, has cleared the air on the political crisis in Rivers State and the case before the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja.
In a statement issued in Abuja, yesterday, Ajulo said that contrary to the information in circulation, the case in suit number FHC/ABJ/CS/1718/2023 between Victor Okon Jumbo and five others v the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and five others were filed at the Federal High Court, Abuja, and currently before Justice Joyce Abdumalik and not before Rivers State High Court.
