Justice Modupe Nicol-Clay of the Lagos State High Court in Igbosere on Monday struck out a robbery charge filed by the Lagos State Government against three men: Abubakar Ali, Abdullahi Ibrahim and Abdulraman Abdullahi for lack of diligently prosecution.
The defendants: Ali, 29, a labourer; Ibrahim, 32, unemployed; and Abdullahi, 25, commercial motorcyclist were first arraigned by the police before a Lagos State Magistrates’ Court in 2012 for alleged robbery.
After their arraignment seven years ago, the police had urged Chief Magistrate Ope-Agbe to remand the trio in prison pending advice from the Department of Public Prosecution (DPP).
The DPP later recommended their trial and the case was transferred to the high court where the defendants were arraigned before Justice Nicol-Clay in July 2013.
The state then re-arraigned the defendants on a two-count charge of conspiracy to commit armed robbery and robbery, both of which are contrary to Sections 295 (2) (b) and 297…
