Ogungbeje was arrested as he stepped out of his car in the parking lot.
Browsing: Olukoya Ogungbeje
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that at the resumed proceedings on Friday at an Ikeja High Court, Noel Brown, announced his appearance as the counsel for Evans and the only female co-defendant, Ogechi Uchechukwu.
Evans said similar charges were pending before a Lagos High Court (Ikeja Division) and therefore should be tried by one judge.
In the first charge, Evans was docked with one Victor Aduba on a four-count charge bordering on conspiracy, kidnapping and unlawful possession of firearms.
Obiechina had filed the suit alongside his wife, Nzube, and had joined as respondents the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, the Nigeria Police and the Special Anti-Robbery Squad.
Evans had at his arraignment on August 30 plead guilty to the charges
Justice Abdulazeez Anka, who gave the ruling, however, warned Evan’s lawyer to desist from “practices unbecoming of a legal practitioner”.
A motion ex parte was filed before the Federal High Court Lagos on Wednesday, where the suspect was said to have alleged grave constitutional infraction perpetrated against him
In the new suit filed on Thursday by his counsel, Olukoya Ogungbeje, through an originating summon, marked FHC/L/CS/1012/ 2017, Evans is claiming N300 million as general and exemplary damages against the police for what he termed “illegal detention and unconstitutional media trial”
Justice Muslim Hassan ordered that the permanent forfeiture of the money to the Federal Government “since nobody has showed up as the owner”
The plaintiff had in the suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/809/16 applied for an order of perpetual injunction restraining the Respondents from arresting, inviting, intimidating or harassing any of the judges whose homes were raided in the “sting operation” conducted by the DSS
Justice Okon Abang struck out the suit on the grounds that the applicant lacked the locus standi to institute the action