The Supreme Court on Friday set aside the Court of Appeal decision which overruled an interlocutory application by five brothers.
The Okoye brothers, Ebele, Ejike, Chizoba, Chika and Onyeka, were on May 24, 2006, arraigned by the police before an Awka Magistrates’ Court on a seven-count charge of conspiracy and assault.
The charges among others bordered on conspiracy to commit felony and serious assault on police officers and malicious damages to property.
Delivering the lead judgment, Justice Kumai Akaahs, held that the appellate court was wrong to have set aside the concurring decisions of the Magistrates’ Court and the Enugu High Court on …Read More
Source:: PM Newspaper
