Justice Adedayo Akintoye of an Igbosere High Court in Lagos again discharged the application seeking to
quash the charges preferred against the suspected kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike a.k.a Evans, by the Lagos State Government.
Akintoye, while ruling on the application, said the charges filed against Evans did not offend the rule of duplicity as enshrined in the country’s laws and, therefore, lacked merit.
Evans, who is standing trial on a fresh five counts bordering on conspiracy to kidnap, kidnapping and attempted murder, had, on May 25, asked the court to quash all the charges filed against him.
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In a motion on notice, the defendant had said that all the charges were “grossly defective, repetitive and an abuse of court processes.”
Evans is charged alongside three others: Joseph Emeka, Ugochukwu…
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