“Why all charges against Evans should be dismissed” – Suspected kidnap kingpin’s lawyer
Olukoya Ogungbeje, counsel to suspected kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike also known as Evans, has revealed why all charges against the accused should be dismissed.
Ogungbeje asked a Lagos High Court sitting in Igbosere to quash the two separate charges filed against Evans by the Lagos State Government.
The state government had brought a fresh five-count charge bordering on conspiracy to kidnap, kidnapping and attempted murder against Evans and three others.
The defendant is charged alongside one Joseph Emeka, Ugochukwu Nwachukwu and Victor Aduba.
In the second charge, Evans is being tried alongside Emeka, Okpara and Aduba.
Ogungbeje informed the court that he had filed a motion on notice to quash all the charges filed against the first defendant (Evans).
In the motion on notice, Ogungbeje said that all the charges and the proof of evidence before the court did not establish any prima facie case against the first defendant.
He also said that all the charges were “grossly defective, incompetent and constituted an abuse of court processes”.
He stated that the prosecution had earlier filed similar charges and amended charges bordering on kidnapping against the same first defendant pending before the same High Court of Lagos State.
He averred that the two separate charges were brought in bad faith to “harass, oppress, hound, frustrate, vex and intimidate the first defendant.”
“It will be in the interest of justice if all the two separate charges are quashed and the defendant is accordingly discharged.”
Ogungbeje, however urged the court to adopt the facts as stated in the affidavit in support of the motion on notice.
