Two men, Nduka
Okafor and James Aikhionbare, will be spending the next one month in
prison custody pending the outcome of an advice from the Lagos State
Director of Public Prosecution on a case of murder the police leveled
against them.....
A counsel from the Panti police
station, Mr Goddey Osuyi, told the court that Okafor, 62, and
Aikhionbare, 38, conspired to stab one Mrs Mabel Okafor to death at her
residence over a yet-to-be detailed circumstance.
It was gathered that the incident
occurred on August 17, 2016 at House J68B, Close 9, Victoria Garden
City, Lekki, Lagos. A reliable police source said that the suspects had
earlier been arrested but were allowed to go on bail at the police
station.
The source added that the suspects
were, however, rearrested by police detectives from the Ikoyi Division.
The case was later transferred to the State Criminal Investigation
Department (SCID), Panti-Yaba, Lagos.
It was also learnt that the
Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, Edgal Imohimi, based on the outcome
of the investigation, directed that the suspects be charged to court.
Consequent upon the directive, the
two men yesterday appeared before an Ebute Meta chief magistrate’s court
on a two-count charge of conspiracy and murder.
But the magistrate, Mrs A.S.
Okubule, ordered the remand of Okafor and Aikhionbare at the Ikoyi
Prisons pending an advice from the Lagos State DPP.
Okubule adjourned the case to November 20, 2017.
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