Akwa Ibom State High Court sitting in Uyo has ordered the Federal Road Safety Corps, to immediately recall its suspended Superintendent Route Commander, Mr Abochi John, who was charged with receiving a stolen phone in 2016.
This is as the court discharged and acquitted Mr Abochi John and one Anietie Okokon Udoh, a 37-year-old father of four from Ikot Ayang Itam in Itu Local Government Area, of a two-count charge of receiving stolen property.
Delivering judgement which lasted for over three hours on Monday, the presiding judge, Justice Ntong Ntong said, “the reinstatement of the suspended FRSC officer, shall take effect forthwith and the payments of his salaries carried out within three months, on or before April 16, 2023.” Justice Ntong said he found it “worrisome why the FRSC officer was suspended when the Federal Road Safety Corps ought to know that an accused person is presumed innocent during the trial.”
Justice Ntong said, “the prosecution created serious doubts in the mind of the court, beginning with the first prosecution witness, Mrs Utomobong Johnson, the Head of Administration, Legal, of El-Coolex Limited, the Company that was allegedly robbed, testifying on a hearsay evidence, not admissible in law.”
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