By Onozure Dania
Lagos—A Lagos High Court, sitting at Igbosere, yesterday, dismissed an application seeking to quash the charge preferred against alleged kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike a.k.a Evans, by the Lagos State Government.
Ruling on the application, Justice Adedayo Akintoye, said the charges filed against Evans did not offend the rule of duplicity as enshrined in laws and, therefore, lacked merit.
Evans, who is standing trial on a fresh five-count charge on conspiracy to kidnap, kidnapping and attempted murder, had on May 25, asked the court to quash all charges filed against him.
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 also standing trial alongside three others: Joseph Emeka, Ugochukwu Nwachukwu and Victor Aduba.
In the second charge, Evans is…
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