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Lagos state to call Falana as witness in Evans case

by Our Reporter
June 27, 2019
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Femi Falana

The Lagos State Government on Thursday told an Igbosere High Court that it wants to add Femi Falana SAN as one of the witnesses to testify in the trial of alleged kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, alias Evans.

This was revealed through an application filed by Lagos State Prosecutor, Y.G Oshoala.

Oshoala told the Court, that an issue came up during trial within trial which required that “we call an additional witness”.

It would be recalled that on Jan. 16, Evans had told the court that his confessional statement which he made to the police after his arrest in 2017, was made under duress.

Therefore a trial within trial was conducted to ascertain whether the defendant’s statement was actually made under duress.

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Evans is currently facing two separate charges, bordering on conspiracy to kidnap, kidnapping and attempted murder, before Justice Adedayo Akintoye.

In the first charge, Evans is standing trial alongside Joseph Emeka, Ugochukwu Nwachukwu and Victor Aduba.

In the second charge, he is standing trial alongside Joseph Emeka, Linus Okpara and Victor Aduba.

At the resumed hearing on Thursday, Oshoala told the court that during trial within trial Evans mentioned that Falana came to visit him while in police custody but was prevented from seeing him due to excessive torture which he was going through.

The prosecutor, therefore, said he would want to call the SAN as a witness for the interest of justice.

But the counsel to Evans, Mr R. B. Ekeh, said that he has not responded to the application, adding that other defendants’ counsel said that they were not served with the application.


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“Oshoala said that the issue came up during trial within the trial of the first defendant (Evans) therefore does not concern the other defendants,” he said.

After this argument, the third defendant’s counsel, Mr S. E. Okeke, holding the brief of Mr J. C. Jiakponna, told the court that he had a bail application.

He informed the court that he has served the medical director of Kirikiri Maximum Security Prison, the order made by the court on May 23, in which the director was ordered to issue a medical report on the state of health of the third defendant (Linus Opara).

The counsel had claimed that Opara had a failed operation in prison which might require treatment at an outside hospital.

Okeke, however, said that the prisons have not reacted to it.

“We will move our bail application after the prisons have reacted to the court’s order,” he said.

Justice Akintoye, consequently, adjourned the case until Sept. 18 for ruling on the first charge and hearing of bail application on the second charge.

Tribune Online recalls that Evans was arrested on June 10, 2017, and was in August 2017 arraigned before Justice Hakeem Oshodi at an Ikeja High Court for kidnapping.

He was also arraigned before Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of Ikeja High Court, Lagos, on different charges.



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