What The Judge Said About Evans Will Shock You
The highly celebrated case of the dreaded Kidnap suspect,Chukwudumem Onwuamadike, popularly known as Evans get to a wit’s end as the Lagos High Court warned that it would no longer tolerate requests for adjournments.
As reported by the news agency of Nigeria, the trial of the suspected kidnap kingpin resumed on Tuesday at the Lagos State High Court with a new counsel representing the accused person.
Mr. Chino Obiagwu, the new counsel requested for a short adjournment to enable him study the case file, but Justice Hakeem Oshodi refused the request.
He turned down the request because he would no longer accept further delays.
The fifth and sixth defendants counsel, Mr Agwulanna Uzoukwu and Mr Emmanuel Ochai, opposed Mr Obiagwu’s prayer, pointing out that the several adjournments were affecting the liberty of their clients.
On his part, the state counsel, Mr Haaron Adebayo, also opposed the adjournment request, saying the state was ready for trial.
The trial had been put on hold, with the last hearing on June 26 because of changes in defence counsels.
After the various parties had made their cases at the hearing on Tuesday it was then adjourned till October 26 for further hearing.
Evans in August 2017 pleaded guilty to conspiracy and kidnapping before a judge of the Ikeja High Court.
