The Federal Excessive Courtroom in Abuja has mounted March 13 for listening to on the petition filed by Bello Bodejo, the detained President of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, looking for his unconditional launch from the custody of the Protection Intelligence Company.
Bodejo was arrested on January 23 at Miyetti Allah workplace in Karu LGA of Nasarawa State over the publicity of a vigilante group.
The Legal professional Normal of the Federation, Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), had filed an ex parte movement on February 5, looking for to remand Bodejo in custody pending the conclusion of investigations and arraignment in courtroom.
Decide Inyang Ekwo ordered Bodejo to be remanded within the custody of the Protection Intelligence Company for 15 days.
Through the proceedings on February 22, the decide gave the FG seven days to file prices in opposition to Bodejo.
Nonetheless, when the case was arraigned on Tuesday, Bodejo was not current within the courtroom.
The AGF's counsel, YA Imana, instructed the courtroom that the company had but to ship Bodejo's file to its workplace.
She stated, “This case is scheduled for arraignment. Sadly, the investigation companies have to this point been unable to ship the file to us, because of numerous issues that the investigation companies are going through. “
She defined that her workplace had written three letters to the investigating company to ship them the duplicate file, however because of the complexity of the character of the investigation, the company had not but supplied her with the file.
In his assertion, Bodejo's counsel, Mohammed Sheriff, instructed the courtroom that a number of makes an attempt have been made to launch his shopper pending his arraignment.
He stated: “On February 6, when Your Honor granted the applying to retain him (Bodejo), we filed a movement and Your Honor stated the movement could be heard on February 22. “
The sheriff stated that when the case was adjourned on February 22 and the prosecutor was given seven days to current his shopper for arraignment, they filed a brand new movement on his behalf.
“Right this moment, the defendant (Bodejo) has spent 43 days in custody and no prices have been filed earlier than any competent courtroom,” he stated.
The lawyer argued that moreover, the prosecutor had not filed a counter-affidavit in opposition to their discover request though they seemed that there have been allegations in opposition to Bodejo.
He stated their final movement was dated February 23 and filed on February 26, including that the prosecution was served on the identical date.
Decide Ekwo, subsequently, stated regardless of being given a listening to date, the prosecutor was unprepared, including that the suspect would even be given a listening to date.
He adjourned the case till March 13 in order that Bodejo's movement might be thought-about.
Within the discover of termination filed by the sheriff, Bodejo requests an order directing the federal authorities to launch him unconditionally pending his arraignment or trial earlier than a courtroom of competent jurisdiction.
