The lawmaker representing Kogi West Senatorial district, Dino Melaye, was on Thursday absent from a Lokoja court for his ongoing gun running trial.
Wuzup Naija had earlier reported that the Senator was allegedly abducted by unknown persons while travelling from Abuja to Lokoja, the capital of Kogi State, for the trial.
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Melaye’s lawyer, Barrister Yemi Mohammed who stood in for Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN), told the trial magistrate Suleyman Abdalah that he had it on good authority that Melaye was attacked in Gwagwalada.
“I learnt that he was attacked yesterday in Gwagwalada on his way home from the court, up till now, I have not been able to reach him, I don’t know where he is at the moment,” he said.
He said that the prosecution counsel was not ready to open due to the reason best known to them
However, the officer in charge of police prosecution, Theophilus Oteme, told the court that the prosecuting counsel had an emergency yesterday that made it extremely difficult to appear in court.
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He, therefore, asked for an adjournment to 23 September which was opposed to by the trial magistrate as “it contravened administration of criminal justice law of Kogi state as amended”
The magistrate, therefore, adjournment till 9th August for the commencement of trial.
